Grace Draven

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338 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice · #255. Student Spotlight: How Grace Draven Learned to Write Faster (Without Sacrificing Quality) · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

that I needed to rethink how I approached it.

And it was more what scene by scene.

That made a huge difference in my latest book, how I handled it, because I did not only dual point of view, I did dual timeline.

With flashbacks.

Yeah, I was gonna say I would not recommend that to a new writer at all, you know, but the thing is I don't know that that I would have approached that if I did not have that changed mindset from listening to that podcast where you mention that.

It became much more fluid and easy.

Um, because at that point, instead of looking at what was connecting a chapter, I looked at what was connecting a scene.

And because of that, especially since in each chapter I had one point of view and a flashback, or not a flashback, but a dual timeline within that same point of view.

So the connection of scene by scene had to work.

You absolutely had to have that packed dual timeline match with the current one that I had just written.

So when you'll if I tried to do it strictly by looking at, okay, I'm gonna split this out and I must have twenty eight chapters, no, because I think at that point I would have seen sort of a slog in the middle, because we all know what happens at two.

And I think as long as

Doing it scene by scene instead of chapter by chapter.

Your chapters will have a natural breaking point if you are connecting your scenes correctly, right?

Oh yeah, huge difference.

And I mean, I saw it shave off an enormous amount of time on what I was spending because, you know, I was also niggling, okay, where am I going to make this break and so forth?

But once I was much more focused on the scene connection, there was just a natural, very easy flow and break for each chapter that went after it.

You know, I did not, um, once I got over the idea that and I know where my block was was, you know, I went when I was in college, it was I'm sure everybody who took English composition always remembered how uh you had your thesis statement.

Remember how it had the upside down triangle, then you did three or four block paragraphs and you had the right side up triangle for your conclusion and stuff like that.

It was so rigid.

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