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: Re: Building character trust My main characters finally met. Officially... They still don't know who the others are, and are from different cultural backgrounds, too different for the others to seem
Since the reader doesn't need to meet the groups, but they do need to meet each other, why not just do it "off camera."
You could do a chapter break right after the meeting, and start in again with something like "After three weeks together, there was still some lingering tension between the two groups, but for the most part..."
Of course that might skip over time that could be useful for you, but you can always add it back in later.
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: Just wanted to mention The Novel Factory here, as keeping track of characters was one of the main reasons it was developed. Disclosure - I am the creator of this software. This is a screenshot
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: For what it is worth, this seems quite effective to me. It is always difficult to write in first person, and when the narrator is challenged in some way, it also challenges the writer.
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