/lit/ - Literature

>>23230440
From my experience writing a timeskip, you either go two routes, a gradual timeskip , or a drastic timeskip. I took the drastic timeskip. I did this by showing the audience a scene that's supposedly a nice moment with contunity from the last chapter. Only for it to become weirder and more dark until it's revealed that what's going is entirely a misremembered memory of the aged up character trying to write her shitty novel. When you go for a drastic timeskip theirs more tension and creativity if you build it right, especially when you don't want to write about what happens to a character within a certain time frame. I personally find this type of timeskip more awarding than adding 2 or more chapters on a period of time that doesn't matter, just because the continuity will be smoother for the reader.

If you don't want this, go for gradual, gradual is great for an entire characters story, gradual can have tension if you care about the in-between moments before the timeskip and character introduction events, theirs some surprise factor (weaker than a drastic timeskip), and it's easier from a writing perspective.

You should try and decide what type of timeskip technique you want. It'll narrow down your decision-making a ton