: Re: When is it ok to add filler to a story? After a couple iterations I came up with the "skeleton" or summary of my story. I have read many places and guides saying "if it's not advancing

I tend to write more long-windedly, but I also understand where those guides you referenced are coming from. It really depends how you think you convey information most effectively. Do you want to provide clues that one of these people is going to die? Perhaps consider adding some detail(s) to foreshadow the events to come. Maybe there's something very specific that the reader is supposed to get out of the interactions between the characters. In that case, perhaps less is more.

Two examples of books which accomplish this second point nicely are Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea and Camus' The Stranger. I read them consecutively last year, and in both, the omission of "fluff" really allowed me to hone in on what themes and details were really important.

In sum, consider what you want to get out of these "five dates," and see what option works better. Perhaps you could even consider writing the events in both styles, long and short. Good luck!

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