Pacing within Scenes – by September Fawkes…
Previously, I talked about pacing according to narrative arc–the whole story. Today, we are going to talk about scene-level pacing.
Pacing really happens at three levels:
– in the overall story (the narrative arc)
– in the scenes
– in the lines (passages and paragraphs)
We often think that the way to control pacing is to add or subtract words (probably because
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