
Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?
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Pacing in a Story
Pacing really does have to do with the speed of events so I wonder if you could talk a little bit about pacing in terms of like literally how many things are happening in a scene. Part of the function of pacing is that you don't want everything to happen all at the same time because it's just a mad jumble of events that all arrive in a giant cacophony then it's a modernist novel, right? "Every story pretty much regardless of stakes every story has plot points or turning points or events that matter," he says.
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