It's chapter 7 of your novel. You have one task. Connect the dots.
Your protagonist is trapped in an elevator, with a stranger, after the building just got hit by an earthquake (Point C). You know that the next major plot point in the story will be when they are broken out by a mysterious hero (Point D), but you can't simply jump right to that point. You need at least a few more pages between.
Assuming this is where you are in your story, what would you prefer to use to "fill the space" between Point C and Point D?
A. Action: Something suddenly happens, and then the characters are forced to...
B. Dialogue: Little chit chat or back and forth while the characters wait to be rescued...
C. Description: An elevator is such a unique place and you will share with us why...
IF you could only stick to one of the above (no mixing and matching) what would you choose and why?
2 comments:
Well, A of course! The elevator is sure to plunge another story or two, the strangers will fear for their lives and spill their deepest darkest secrets to each other to be rid of them before dying, thus realizing they haven't been truly LIVING their lives and now they might END, and then they realize that they are MEANT to BE and now they might never know how wonderful their relationship could be if they are dead. And then they make out a lot because it is not a scene of terror without a good makeout session.
...I think I've been single for way too long.
Haha.
Action, action, and then some more action. I can't get a grip on characters from just dialogue. They could be lying. Let me see 'em do some things. then I will know them.
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