: Re: How do I fill time in my story? I am writing a short story, and I have some gaps in time I have to fill. In my story, a girl wants to go to a party later in the day, but there are

@Mendez196

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Skipping through time is totally legitimate, and often the best choice.

You can just leap there:

"At 7:15--her mother's advice regarding the precise definition of "fashionably late"--she knocked on the door."

You can summarize the time:

"The rest of the day was filled with preparation, from an appointment with her mother's hairdresser to a near-tantrum at Macy's when the skirt that she had been eyeing for six weeks was suddenly sold out. But finally, at 7:15--her mother's...."

Or you could take an event from elsewhere in the story and insert it in the day, if that seems to work.

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