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Read the last word in the chapter, turn the page and new chapter starts with "Two weeks later."
It tightens up the story, cuts out all the day to day stuff all the various characters are going through. The next important event in the story then starts to take place. I got to wondering about what was happening to the characters during that elapsed time. The most reasonable assumption was that they weren't doing things that were of no interest to most people. Boring things that would only slow down the delivery of the story, diluting it's impact on the recipient. If it was interesting things, some people would appreciate it, others would lose interest because it wasn't part of the story they were reading. The editing makes them pop out from the background of the movements showing how they got from point B from point A.
In the background are things the characters could be doing that could cause readers not to like the character. By leaving out things characters are being built that appear to be more than they are. While seeming to be artificial at first, building up an ideal persona is a common practice employed by people as a way of being able to avoid questions they don't want to be asked.
I'm reading a murder mystery where the good guys are kept in the picture minute by minute. The bad guys, victims, incidental characters met along the way pop up from time to time, with lots of unexplained time in between appearances. This makes makes them appear exactly as they are presented. The good guys are not so good as they travel through the story. They haven't murdered anyone yet but its probably not completely ruled out. Ironically the bad guys could actually be not as bad as they are shown to be by their limited exposure. Its all up to the beholder how the blank spaces get filled in. Is there some kind of ratio of the documented story vs all the information filled in the blanks supplied by the readers preconceptions that can be used to determine what kind of story is being presented.
It tightens up the story, cuts out all the day to day stuff all the various characters are going through. The next important event in the story then starts to take place. I got to wondering about what was happening to the characters during that elapsed time. The most reasonable assumption was that they weren't doing things that were of no interest to most people. Boring things that would only slow down the delivery of the story, diluting it's impact on the recipient. If it was interesting things, some people would appreciate it, others would lose interest because it wasn't part of the story they were reading. The editing makes them pop out from the background of the movements showing how they got from point B from point A.
In the background are things the characters could be doing that could cause readers not to like the character. By leaving out things characters are being built that appear to be more than they are. While seeming to be artificial at first, building up an ideal persona is a common practice employed by people as a way of being able to avoid questions they don't want to be asked.
I'm reading a murder mystery where the good guys are kept in the picture minute by minute. The bad guys, victims, incidental characters met along the way pop up from time to time, with lots of unexplained time in between appearances. This makes makes them appear exactly as they are presented. The good guys are not so good as they travel through the story. They haven't murdered anyone yet but its probably not completely ruled out. Ironically the bad guys could actually be not as bad as they are shown to be by their limited exposure. Its all up to the beholder how the blank spaces get filled in. Is there some kind of ratio of the documented story vs all the information filled in the blanks supplied by the readers preconceptions that can be used to determine what kind of story is being presented.