: Re: Phrasing to balance immense speed with boredom Through much of my novel the protagonist spends considerable time cruising over various landscapes at speeds exceeding 500 km/h. To you or me this

@Samaraweera193

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Typically you present your story through a point-of-view, and if your character's perspective on something is boredom, it doesn't make sense to present it as thrilling to the reader. For instance, most of us hurtle across our landscapes in big two-ton metal machines at speeds over 60 miles per hour, but few of us perceive it as thrilling, because it is too habitual.

But there is an easy way around this problem: Just have your main character think back to the days when this was all new to him, and he found it the most exciting thing in the world. You can have a fully described flashback to those early days. Then you can contrast that with his present perceptions, and show how much they've changed.

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