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

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Prose Fiction Pacing

Pacing is really a function of two different things. How fast the actual sentences feel as though they're moving and how quickly the events of the story seem to be progressing. Different books create a different pace of reading. Analee picked out a paragraph from Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel Die Trying. Could you share it with us please?

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