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We're like political candidates arguing about the "write" way to do this or that when we are actually all arguing for the same thing which is to get the damn story done and over with and hopefully published. When all is said and done, the author will heed whatever advice suits their vision and the reviewer will give whatever advice they think might help under the circumstances -- it may or may not, but the effort is valuable and hopefully appreciated and not denounced as some evil editor bound to keep their story off the shelves. We can learn and ignore with wisdom or simply ignore the rules and sound advice of others. And that's the truth, phtttt. Take care. Vern

Good idea. I'll buy everyone a peck of tomatoes, lol. Take care. Vern

Drifters

Temple; Tapes

Me: VD, no excuse me, CD

Congrats, MJ, good news for the soul goes with the soup. Take care. Vern

Orange-head

PeePee

If you wish to promote your real name to your readers on this site which is totally different from submitting for  publication you can simply add it to your profile information and you can also sign your real name to any posts in these forums for further advertisement, good or bad -- to paraphrase the old saying, "Don't care what they say, just spell my name right." Take care. Vern

Pushups

You can always simply put a time reference such as the date at the beginning of each chapter kind of like a heading or you can have the narrator or a character make a reference to the time elapsed since the last episode described -- a week later Joe blow blew smoke signals or "You know, Joe, you blew smoke signals a month ago when we were in the firehouse" or "Since your skiing accident, you've been in a coma for three weeks" or such. A thousand ways to say things to reference time.

But it may not always be necessary to tell the reader the exact time lapse as the action unfolding will clue them in. Say your character was flying to Australia or somewhere halfway around the world, then you picked up their activities after they had arrived. That would indicate a certain amount of time had transpired assuming you don't want to follow everything they did on the flight. The storyline and characters will probably give you lots of opportunities and ways to reference the passage of time in various increments. See you next week. Take care. Vern

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Take care. Vern