: Re: How to write a time skip without indication like "a moment pass" or "a few hours later" Here is a short of what been stuck in my head lately “CUFFS”, shouts the man as he grows tired

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Set the scene:
To make a time gap pass, you need to set the stage for your reader. In visual arts, you can LITERALLY set the stage, but for a book, you need to use words. First, create a cliffhanger moment. There is a clear moment you define exactly what will happen. Then, when you stop the action for your gap, the reader can easily fill in the missing time - sometimes, more effectively than you as a writer ever could. The end of this scene is actually not too bad.
Then, when you resume, you must set a clearly new scene. This will at least need a space or marking to show a change of scene. The new scene must be clearly NOT the old scene, and the environment should change somehow. If one minute they are in a cave, and something horrible is about to happen, then later they are walking back to their car (for example) discussing what happened, it is clear they aren't in the cave any more. The one man may have blood on him that the other decides not to mention.
Having a time break at the end of a chapter is ideal, since a chapter break is a natural point to end one scene and begin another.
There isn't really anything wrong with saying, "Later, after it was finished,..." To make it apparent. If it doesn't look and sound right, use something else.

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