KEEPING IT SEXY — WRITING TRANSITIONS & THE DINKUS

Writing Round Up and a Place to Submit

In life and in story, you have these things called transitions. Places where things change. You go from one place to another, one scene to another, one chapter to another, one husband to another, one president to another.

A really good transition is really just a bridge that helps the reader go logically from one section, scene, chapter to another without it being awkward like a bad date or making their brain hitch where they say things like “We were just in space and now we’re at Wal-Mart? What the heck?”

Some people are amazing at transitions.

Some people have awkward transitions.

Some refuse to acknowledge there even is a transition.

But in the writing world, you want them to be smooth and there are a bunch of transitional phrases and words that authors fall back on to help them do that like:

• A week later (or whenever)
• At the same time
• Afterwards
• For two weeks/days/minutes
• Meanwhile
• At night
• The next day
• The next night
• For a month, I cried…