Timeline for How can I establish my story's setting in the first chapter?
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Chronocidal | To add to this: Don't treat the bulletpoints as a huge block to unload all at once. Try to hit a bulletpoint, on average, every 2-3 paragraphs (some might naturally follow on in the same paragraph, some may need more story to set up) So, for example, at one point your character needs to contact someone - and an older character reminisces about how much easier it was before S.W.O.R.D. disabled the internet/cell phones. This conversation might be because they are being held up at a checkpoint. At some point, weaving between the slums that have sprung up, they catch glimpses of the harbour | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | Not sure this answers his question. He's mainly after how to establish a built world within a single chapter. Most of this is about chapter outlining and avoiding telling rather than showing. | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 12:05 | history | answered | J.G. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |