The Badge Archive

Simply summarize what you need to happen and come back to it later. If you’ve just finished a battle and know they’ll be going back to the town and having dinner when they discover some news – but you don’t know how to get them there because they don’t have a town or anything they are staying in? Just write “battle ends, they find a town and lodge at the local inn/tavern” and then go on to writing the dinner scene you have in your head.

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Too many examples.

• We had to summarize when Clara and Ava had to leave their kitchen in the opening scene somehow and hear the news of the god’s retirement.
• We had to skip how Clara found out her family needed her because we had no clue how news travelled in this new world of ours yet. So we wrote that she heard her family needed her and she made the preparations to go.
• When she got to her family, we still didn’t have a clue what businesses they would have and just picked a random one to try and start the scene, but couldn’t really finish it because we hadn’t worked out how the family interconnects. We took a day off for some research and then just summarized that the business family connection sent her back to the family farm and went on from there.
• At the family farm we knew what to do for the mirror of truth and then had a hard time for why they left, so we just put “they are asked to leave and search the city”
• At the city we had to summarize “they checked a few places” before we could start the next scene where they are frustrated and not sure what to do next. That one we could write.

The list goes on. Don’t get bogged down when you don’t know what to write, just move on to the next scene.

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