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Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?

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Is There a Poop Scene in Ulysses?

Pacing is about taking someone through a period of time with you it's about playing with time and this is a thing that we don't acknowledge enough I think as people. We experience time in such a variable way even though every minute is obviously the same on every watch in every place but a minute can be a really long time or a really short time. Every story is a bargain about how long things take at some deep fundamental level and I just think that's super cool so yeah what we're really saying is we want more novels where someone pooping is really kind of a major event in the story and we take our time to explore the ramifications of that.

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