So I'm trying to write a dystopian story for like a long time now. I have the entire world the characters and the main points but the thing is I can't figure out how to get to those points. I just realized it's because unlike most stories I write the events happen over a long period of time. Like at the moment my characters just got to a retreat thing that's a month-long. I could shorten this but then it would ruin a lot of world-building. At this retreat, they are going to try out new things and be evaluated to see what career they are going into but I'm stuck on their first night because I have no clue what to write. I want them to get to know other characters but I feel like it's slow and boring. I'm not sure if I should just keep doing time skip or what. Does anyone have advice? If you need more info just ask.
I had the same problem, I struggled figuring out how to keep going with the story while also making it interesting. I realized you only need to add scenes that add to the story, if it doesn't change anything that the reader knows, it's unneeded and probably boring.
You can set up side plots building relationships between characters. one character could invite another on a walk, the next scene could be the characters on that walk. You can do it with whole days, have a character ask another to dinner or have a character plan to sneak out at night, they would have planned it in the morning, you could just skip through the day right to the scene. You could probably do that with entire weeks, maybe adding bits in between. Depending on the writing style you could just have them summarize a week or so.
I don't know if this helps.
(Sorry for my shit Punctuation, it's like four in the morning.)
This actually really helped! I’ll definitely try it out thanks a lot!
On that note, you could do their emotional and physical preparation for these things.
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