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Do you have any tips for how to slow down time in a story?

How to slow down time

To slow down time in your story you need to use a mix of different writing ingredients: you need different descriptions that capture the reader in the moment as well as internal monologue and different sentence structures.

Detailed Descriptions:

Sensory Details: Use the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to describe what the character is seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting in intricate detail.

Detailed Observations: Zoom in on small, often overlooked details. The sound a tea cup makes as it hits the ground, the way an expression on a character's face changes, the turning of heads as someone enters the room.

Slow Motion: Manipulate the time by describing how it feels like slow motion to the characters: "Time slowed down, and it felt as if the whole of humanity had decided to stop breathing for a moment."

Physical Reactions: A detailed description of the physical aspects of a scene. The movements a character makes, how their gaze turns, their breathing changes, their body begins to shake.

Psychological Aspects: Focus on the anxiety of a character looking at a clock that never seems to move, their nervousness seeping out of them

Internal Monologue:

Memories and Flashbacks: Add context by showing memories or flashbacks that relate to the situation.

Pondering: Let the character reflect on the situation, their feelings and their plan for the next steps. Let the reader explore the character's inner life.

Dialogue:

Reduced Dialogue: Dialogue brings a scene into real time. Use it thoughtfully and sparringly, with lots of inner thoughts and reactions in between.

Silence: Make use of silence between the characters which can be filled with more descriptions.

Language:

Smaller Steps: Write out each action taken, no matter how small, and focus on describing each step that happens.

Control Pacing: Use your sentence structure to create long descriptions that slow it down, and short, impactful ones to pick up the pace if needed for a moment.

More: Masterpost: How to write a story

- Jana

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MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

Are we never gonna mention that Zootopia characters are basically the animal versions of the Brooklyn Nine Nine characters?

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Folklore (Cat's Version)

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Incorrect Quote!

Dick: On a scale from “damn Daniel” to “fre sha vaca do”, how are you feeling?

Jason: In between “it’s an avocado, thanks” and “how did you defeat Captain America”, but as a solid answer I would say “I don’t need a degree to be a clothing hanger”. How about you, Tim?

Tim: Probably “road work ahead”.

Bruce: I speak many languages, and this is none of them.

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when the heavens turn round, when the stars fall down - Submitted by tinyheads

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Suburbia Susan - submitted by hibiscusbabyboy

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Clever 😂

Incorrect Quote!

Dick: Would you stab your best friend in the leg for 10 million gold?

Jason: You stab me, and then when my leg gets better, we buy a big-ass house.

Tim: You can stab me too, then we'll have 20 million.

Jason: Good thinking.

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Sleep

INTP: Uh oh. ISTJ: What? INTP: It's almost 4 AM. ISTJ: INTP, please go to sleep. INTP: But I took a power nap earlier, does that not count? ISTJ: No. INTP: It should!! It was proper time! 8-11 PM! ISTJ: Go to sleep. Real sleep. INTP: It was a real sleep...

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Denial Phase

ISTJ: Well, to tell you the truth, I did go through a denial phase. I thought that we were solely friends for a long time until I realized that something more was beginning to grow between us. INTP: So cute. For me, I had a denial phase before confirming that you're a guy IRL. ISTJ: … Wait, you thought I was a girl? INTP: No, but I wasn't sure. I asked my friend to ask you. I believe I told you this. ISTJ: I forgot about that. INTP: She confirmed that you are, so I could be relieved.

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Hard Questions

INTP: When you… I don't know, first realized that you liked me, did you go through a denial phase before finally admitting that you actually do? ISTJ: I'm honestly surprised at how many hard questions you come up with almost every night. INTP: I'm sorry.

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Eyvind Earle ripoffs lol

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Soft Bones - Submitted by SeesawSiya

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Rip

Honestly, what's so hard about writing living parents? It's not that hard, I do it all the- *pauses* Er, hold that thought.

*Counts the number of parental figures in my WIP*

*Counts how many of them are actually parents*

*Counts how many of them are still alive*

I've done it!

Once.

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By inbox I hope you mean here? Anyway, here it comes!

My sister and I share 16 OCs representing each MBTI type, but my first OC is an ESTP!

Ah, that's such a fun concept!! I love when people make characters inspired by other things (MBTI, Tarot cards, Astrological signs etc....literally never gets old.) I'm either an ENFJ or INFJ depending on which test I take, which I think means I'm Type A, get emotional over pet videos, and want to meet you at the bar to talk and have drinks and then go home and write novels and talk to no one for 2 days.

An OC fact: When I start planning a rom-com, I always come up with characters unevenly - like, I'll have a crystal-clear vision of one character whereas their counterpart will be a stick figure in my head for a very long time. (For anyone who tracks my stories, Keller was clear before Jamie, Elliott before Adrian, and for my next WIP, it's Q before Dez, though that doesn't mean anything to anyone yet.)

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So I went to Ashura's room at night before he came into his room to get a recipe, only to find Subira there standing. I tried talking to her, but the "sorry I can't chat right now" message showed up. And then, I went to photo mode because I wanted to show this to someone, and......... Ashura showed up. Now it looks like this. Does anyone know what is going on? lol

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This sounds fun!

Hey Let's Do a Writers' Fact Swap

Send

An OC fact

A WIP fact

Or a fact about you as a writer

to my inbox and I'll respond with one of my own!

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Dreams of Our Future - submitted by @meowstic-seer-of-the-future

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