Calling EmmaD...help! I seem to recall you having one of your incredibly instructive blog posts, on This Itch, about how (and when) to move the story on using summarising techniques. You don't happen to be able to put your hand on the link, do you? I'd be very grateful for a re-read.

Rosy x

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And/or maybe there was a thread about it here? But I couldn't seem to find it...

Rosy, I think it was a thread on here - talking about how to move a scene on with telling, and then focus on the important bits with showing. I rather think it was either in the main forum, not Private Members, or very possibly in Women's Fiction.

But goodness knows what the thread was called. I do remember the example involved coffee and peppermint tea, if I'm thinking of the right thread.

Emma

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I have a date with the novel now, but if you can give me an idea of what the problem is, I'll have a think about it for later...

Cheers, Emma. I'll have another dig around.

R x

Hmmm. If I have one criticism of WW, it's the search facility. There have been the most amaziing threads here from time to time, but they're impossible to re-locate.

Aha, I think this was it:

http://www.writewords.org.uk/groups/102_297276.asp?y=1&sterm=summary

Yes, that was a good thread. The frustrating thing is, I'm sure there was another related one, because I remember constructing some examples of two people meeting, and deciding whether the would-you-like-some-coffee stuff which it's so easy to get lured into, should be told briefly, or when and whether you should expand...

Emma