How to write a year passing and skip to the next without being tacky:
I’m writing a supernatural academy romance book, or at least, my own unique take on it. I’m just wrapping up the first school year in the book, and I already have over 500 pages written.
Ideally, I’d like to talk about my FMC and her friends doing an assignment and then skip over to the next year where the girls have a continuation of said assignment, only a more difficult version of it.
However, I don’t want to come across as inexperienced or tacky as I’ve already skipped from January of the second semester to the start of the summer and will have a few summer chapters, but ideally, not too many as I don’t want to bore readers should I decide to publish on day by writing a book that’s over a thousand pages.
While I could break the novel up into three books, ideally, I don’t want to because I picture each book being narrated by one of the friends, though my FMC’s friend’s stories will focus on them finding love after they leave the academy and the challenges they go through.
Any advice from fellow writers?
Thank you so much for your time.