During the ensuing five months,
On the one hand, I’m glad we don’t have to put up with these five months of torture on a scene-by-scene basis. On the other, these time skips are super weird when you think about the construction of the series. Why don’t they happen between books? It’s like the authors are just flying by the seat of their pants (a bizarre idea, given that they obviously have an outline for the whole series), and when they reach the end of one idea, they hit the skip button, regardless of the pacing or where we are in the structure of a book. I’ve definitely written [insert ______ scene later] on first drafts. But usually I do end up going back and writing that scene or reworking that part of the plot, instead of throwing a “five months later” over it and turning in my final draft.
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