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Are you a writer whose mind is a whirlwind of creativity and distraction?
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Hello and welcome back to Writing While Distracted, the podcast that helps you
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transform your scattered thoughts into literary brilliance.
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I'm your NeuroSpicy writing coach, Brenda Murphy.
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Stay tuned as we talk about novel pacing, the magic element to get your readers
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to stick around and to read your next book.
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Pacing. What do we mean when we talk about pacing in a novel?
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Pacing is how the reader perceives the speed of the story.
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So when we talk about pacing, we're talking about the reader's experience and
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how they feel reading through the novel.
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Whether they feel breathless, whether they're comfy and cozy,
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whether they're titillated and excited, or if they're bored because your pacing is off.
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Pacing that's off will yank a reader out of their experience and is more often
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than not the cause for a reader to not finish a novel.
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Writers who excel at pacing often get reviews from readers who say,
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I couldn't put this book down. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next.
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I stayed up all night reading this book because I wanted to know how it was going to turn out.
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Or this book is like a warm hug I didn't want to end. It was wonderful to settle
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down to the story and feel the world disappear around me.
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That's what excellent pacing can do for your novel. The primary tools for pacing
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your novel are sentence length, scene length, chapter length,
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word choice, and the length of your story overall.
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No matter if you're writing flash fiction or a 900-page novel,
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the point is that the length of your work affects how readers experience it
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and what expectations they bring to the story.
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If you're writing genre fiction, this is particularly important.
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People who read thrillers want to be thrilled. They don't want to be mired down
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in the the middle of the book wondering why their thriller isn't thrilling them.
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Thriller readers want to have stories that are rapid-paced and that drags them
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along, whether they're ready or not.
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If you write cozy mysteries, you're going to pace your story differently because
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cozy story readers want to experience the story like a warm comforter on a winter night.
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They want to wrap themselves in the narrative, trusting the author not to tell
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them the story at a pace that's uncomfortable.
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Comfortable they are reading cozy stories whether it's
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cozy fantasy or cozy mystery because they want
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to be tucked into that world that you've created and enjoy
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their reading experience at a leisurely pace romance readers
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depending on the reader want differently paced stories some want a slow burn
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others want a story that gets to the naughty bits right away some want the pacing
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of a romantic thriller and others want a cozy romance science fiction and fantasy
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readers tend to enjoy long stories that are well-paced with wonderful world-building,
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where the exciting bits and the stuff that make you turn the page are interspersed
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throughout the narrative.
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This is where knowing who you're writing your story for comes into play.
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Knowing what story you want to tell is really going to help you with your pacing,
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along with who you're telling it for.
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When trying to sort out the pacing of your novel, use your past reading experiences.
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Think of those books that kept
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you up all night long, no matter what your obligations were the next day.
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And those books you slugged through because it was required reading for a class,
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and other times because you were, I don't know, torturing yourselves into finishing
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a book you weren't enjoying.
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As I've gotten older, I do that way less often. If I am not feeling a story, I'll just stop.
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I may go back to the book later because I might be in a different frame of mind
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and I might finish it then, which is something else you need to remember as a writer.
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You don't know what frame of mind or expectations your reader is bringing to
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their reading experience.
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You can't control or anticipate their attitude. But what you can do is provide
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your reader with a well-written, well-paced story.
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The words you choose affect your reader as much as anything in the book.
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The length of words, how snappy they sound, also affects pacing.
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And the example I like to give here is languid.
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Languid is one of my favorite words because you feel it when you say it.
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Languid is a sensual word and it conveys taking your time to do something at a leisurely pace.
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If you write that your character strode down the street, your story moves at
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a different pace than it does if you wrote that your character strolled down the street.
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Both of those words feel different to your reader and influence how the story moves along.
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No less important is sentence length. Long, drawn-out sentences make your readers
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slow down because they have to concentrate and focus on what you're trying to say in that sentence.
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Complicated sentences require more focused than short, snappy sentences.
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Short, direct sentences allow your reader to move through the paragraph and on to the next thing.
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If you're writing a fight scene, skip the paragraph-length sentences.
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If you're writing an argument or a breakup or any other intense negotiation
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that has a lot of emotion, you want to lean into snappy sentences for that dialogue.
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If you're explaining the details of a crime, that might be the time for those long sentences.
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The length of sentences affects the reader's experience of the character's experiences.
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For example, a scene that involves grief.
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Do you want your character and the reader wallowing in the grief?
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Writing long detailed sentences about the character's loss, the drive out to
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the graveyard, the burial, those are the kinds of things that can bring your
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reader into the story and have them experience what your characters experience.
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But what if you have a character who doesn't want to experience grief and they
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want to ignore it or skip over it and they just want to put it behind them.
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Writing shorter sentences and paragraphs and showing how they're avoiding their
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grief also moves the story at a pace that lets you know the character's avoiding
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their grief. It all ties in together.
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These are the details that are sometimes hard for new writers to grasp and are
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sometimes overlooked, but pacing is one of those things that brings people back
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to your books if they like how they felt while they were reading it.
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If they enjoyed the sensation of being so swept away in your story,
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they couldn't wait to get back
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to your book, or if they couldn't wait to find out what happened next,
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or if they enjoyed being in the world you created so long they hated to finish
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the book and and restarted reading it right away as soon as they finished reading it.
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Many cozy readers return to their favorite works because they enjoy the safe,
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cozy feelings of knowing what to expect after they've read it the first time
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and have enjoyed that comfort read.
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The next tool in your pacing kit is scene length.
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Short scenes versus long scenes versus medium length scenes.
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A scene can be as long as a paragraph or longer. It can be two to three pages
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or five pages or however long it takes for you to work through what's happening
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in that scene and how you want your readers to experience that scene.
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Is it a pivotal scene? Is it a big reveal? Is it something you want them to
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remember and understand?
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The thing to remember with scene length is that not all things you want your
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reader to know need to go into one scene.
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Many new writers, and particularly neurodivergent writers, fall into the category
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of authors who know volumes about their subject.
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We've done hours of research and we're carrying it all around in our heads.
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And we want to share that knowledge with you.
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We might have written pages and pages and pages of backstory for each of our
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characters. And we want you to know what we know about them.
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Sharing details and information for many NeuroSpicy folks is our love language.
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We care about you and we want you to know all of the tiny little details and
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minutiae that we know and have become obsessed with.
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We want you to know all the things that we know because we
think it's cool and
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we want everyone to know it.
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All of that information is rambling around in our head and we're overflowing with it.
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Neurodivergent folks are prone to info dumping all at once all of the things
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we know often overwhelming our family, friends, and random strangers if we get really excited.
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And if we're writers, we are in danger of doing that to our readers.
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And while you may want your readers to know all the cool things you found out
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while you're researching your novel or the amazing backstories of your characters,
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if you dump all that information out into one giant scene or one long paragraph or one chapter,
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your reader is going to be overwhelmed and they may walk away from your story
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because it's just too much to
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comprehend and they want to know what's going on, not what led up to it.
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So always remember to sprinkle that stuff around.
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One of the things that I see so often in new writers that trash their pacing
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and negatively affects their narrative is the info dump.
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It's all the things that they want you to know about the story.
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So what's the solution to info dumping? How do we do that? What do we do?
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Well, I call it the sprinkle method.
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You need to sprinkle all of those things that you learned and your backstory,
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and maybe not all of them, because
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let's face it, we often do 200 pages of research for a 60-page novel,
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and that's just us, but not all of that research needs to go into your novel.
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You need to sprinkle in the bits and pieces that make your world feel real and
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make your characters relatable, and so that your readers get finished with the
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sensation of having known your characters and knowing about them.
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So you sprinkle in all those little tidbits and backstory story and observations and research.
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Trickle it out over your narrative so that you don't overwhelm your reader and
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completely blow up your pacing.
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So while we're talking about scene length, let's combine that with talking about
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the length of your fiction.
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Flash fiction absolutely astounds me. It is amazing the emotions that can be
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generated in so few words.
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The same can be said for short stories and novellas.
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Anything that has a very short defined length requires you to pay attention
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to every single bit of it.
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Intense focus, word choice, sentence length, and in the case of short stories,
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paragraph length and scene lengths.
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Things now you may say well that's all
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well and good but I write longer things and that's when
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pacing it's always important but you
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really have to know how to pace yourself if you
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are going to write a very long novel and I'm
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talking particularly here usually fantasy and science fiction novels often run
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to 700 pages and if you are able to pace that well your reader will be very
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happy to stay in those 700 pages and work their way through your giant book.
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I have a favorite series where all of the books run to about 700 pages and I
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have read all nine books multiple times because they are so well paced.
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I never feel bored and even though I know the story, I keep reading it because
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I love the way it's written.
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I love the pacing. I love how I feel reading it and that's what you want.
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Pacing that sweeps your reader along with the story and is so seamless that
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it almost feels like magic behind the scenes.
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But you know what you're doing because I'm helping you figure that out.
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Using scenes and chapters and sentences and paragraphs is what will get your
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readers from the beginning to the end in a organized and hopefully enjoyable fashion.
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Maintaining pacing over a long novel is no different than maintaining pacing for flash fiction.
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Every word choice, sentence length, scene length, and other choices count.
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Each and every scene counts. And that's really what I'm trying to get you to understand.
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All of the choices you make when writing, your pacing choices matter the most.
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And I want you to embrace that idea when you're revising your novel because
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revisions are where you fix the pacing.
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I am a firm believer in and a fast first rough draft.
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And I believe that is the way for many, many folks to get their book written.
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Because I think a lot of folks get too balled up in editing and writing and
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making one thing perfect over and over and over again, and they never get to the end.
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So I'm asking you to let go of that desire for perfection and just vomit out
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a rough draft onto the paper. Don't care.
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Don't worry. Don't look back. Just keep going until you get to the end.
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Because all of of it can be fixed in revisions.
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Every single thing can be fixed in revisions. It doesn't matter what it looks like in the beginning.
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It will look like a big wobbly mess, and you're going to put it back together
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and make it make sense with revisions.
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I fix pacing at the same time I fix structure in my novel, as they're both very interrelated.
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I imagine structure as the trellis that my pacing grows on as my story progresses.
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That's the image I have in my mind.
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And I have a podcast about structure and working on your story structure and
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what exactly that means. And I will link that in the show notes.
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I will also add a link for a free PDF that I have for 30 pacing tools and how to use them.
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It's a little bit more of a detailed explanation. It goes into some finer points
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of what I'm talking about today. And you can have that for your reference.
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The other thing that I'm going to link to in the show notes is a book by Jordan
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Rosenfeld called Make a Scene.
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And it explains wonderfully how structure and pacing work together in scenes
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and how to build your novel with scenes.
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Because really, that's the basic part of a novel, the scenes.
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That's what it comes down to. Because words and sentences and paragraphs all
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go into making a scene. And that's what makes your novel.
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Understanding how scenes work together to move readers through your novel is
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key to understanding how pacing works.
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The final thing I want you to consider is that, and I've referred to it throughout
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this podcast, is that pacing is what gets your readers to finish your book.
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Nothing will make a reader give up on a story faster than wonky pacing.
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Even if you start out strong with a great couple of first chapters,
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if your pacing falls apart in the middle of the book, your reader's going to stop reading.
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So when you are revising, be ruthless. Cut the scenes that don't do anything. Be ruthless about it.
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Insert scenes or revise scenes that don't move the story along or don't show
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character development, which is also part of your story.
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Make sure every scene is doing its job to move the plot along or show character development or do both.
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If your mind is wandering while you are are reading through your manuscript,
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you've got a problem and you need to fix it.
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And you fix it by going back and looking at your word choices,
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looking at your sentence length, looking at your scene length,
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and your chapter length.
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And follow that read-through by looking at your narrative.
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Are you telling an interesting story that's going to encourage your readers to turn the page?
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Have you told an entire story in each chapter and not left your reader wondering
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what happens next? Each scene should end on an event that makes you want to read more.
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Make something happen, particularly at the end of a scene, even if it's just
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your character reflecting on what they're going to do about what just happened.
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Happened, mastering pacing is huge.
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And it's probably the biggest part of becoming a writer and being a writer is
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understanding that concept.
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You want something to happen that makes the reader go, wow, what's going to happen next?
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You want that. That's the experience you want your reader to have because they're
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not going to keep turning pages if they feel like they've already understood
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the story or if there's no reason to turn the page.
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If the end of your scene feels finite, night, they're not going to turn the page.
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Mastering pacing can be challenging, but it's part of the craft of novel writing and it can be learned.
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Keep at it. Use these tools. Keep your readers turning those pages and keep writing.
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Stay tuned. Stay inspired.
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Don't forget to check out the show notes for the links I talked about for a
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free PDF about novel pacing.
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