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@thewirelessblade

Are you a pantser? My advice sort of hinges on you being one, but I’ll go ahead and give the advice of a panster who can’t plot to save her life (O.K. I can come up with ideas for the end of the book while sitting in the car bored and staring out of the window, but I can’t do traditional plotting).

So… I’m actually feeling the same problem right now with a story I’m working on. Everything feels like it happens way too fast, or I have these scenes where nothing much happens, but I’m not worried about it just now.

My advice is to simply keep on doing what you’re doing. Just let it fly, as Andrew Peterson said, point the horse in the right direction and let the reigns go. As long as you’re writing, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Just let the story translate itself from your brain to paper, and once that step is done you can go back and fill in all the holes. I’m a perfectionist, so if I was determined to make everything perfect first try, I’d never get past the first three chapters. XD

So, if you’re not a pantser… That was probably useless advice, but that’s my recommendation. Turn on your writing music and just let it all go.

Another thought, is that when you have the basic idea out on paper, then you can get somebody else to look at it and tell you what’s missing and ask them to give you ideas for scenes to help your story fill out a bit.

Hope that was remotely helpful in some way shape or form. XD