How can I write longer stories?
Hello everyone,
I really enjoy writing fiction and am generally quite satisfied with my writing skills. However, I have one problem: I feel my stories are too short. The plot moves too quickly.
When you read a book that's, say, 200-300 pages long, everything unfolds very naturally and piecemeal. In a novel, usually only a small part of the plot takes place in the first 20 pages; it develops gradually.
In my case, however, the plot is very tight, with important events beginning quickly and ending quickly. The result is more like a short novella that fits into a few pages. I would prefer a novel-length version.
Do you have any tips on how I can give my plot more space so that it doesn't seem so squashed?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Describe more. Not too much, but sometimes something else fits in. However, it shouldn’t be too much, otherwise it happens quickly that the reader gets bored.
Otherwise add a few subplots. Sure, the main action is to be in the foreground, but perhaps one of the secondary characters has a very own conflict, which in the end also affects the main action? (It is important here, however, that all threads lead together at the end and do not run in the sand. Otherwise, as a reader, you can quickly ask yourself why you have to read it now).
If you still have a few ideas on how to proceed, you could also write on the first book instead of a sequel, but I assume that you have your own, completed narrative to which you can no longer add much – except, you have a big antagonist in history for example, and it turns out that he is still alive or not listening to what he has done and that it is only possible to make the story simpler.
If you understand English well, I can recommend this video on the subject, maybe look in, maybe it will help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Ol4bPBOl4
Otherwise, I can only say that even short stories are quite legible, while reading pleasure is less long-lasting, but history can still be much better than a longer one, so don’t worry:)
I hope I could help you and still have a lot of fun and luck writing!
– Allie
I would like to read a section of your texts, because it also depends on how much your writing style is and how much you go into detail.
In addition, the more Fillerszenen you have, the story will of course be longer, but also various action strands that run parallel or one after the other.
What can also help is to write from the perspective of several characters.
Love
You can try to describe objects, persons, spaces or places in more detail. This also helps the reader to imagine what he reads better.
Just don’t start, now in the little one, talk with extensive descriptions (of clothes, furnishings and so). This makes the story of idR to read only lengthy and harder. If you really want to prolong it because your story doesn’t give up enough, see if the plot is round with its heroic journey. Build small stories that fit the plot. Hide how your protas got into a certain situation or why they react to one thing like that. Give the side figures more space for their own history; how did they meet the prota.