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Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story?

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Exposition

Short sentences with lots of white space are mimicking a breathing pattern that happens when someone is excited. When you take faster breaths, you don't look at things for as long. Exposition can often be faster depending on how you write it. But it feels slower than dialogue or quick action beats taking up three or four pages instead of a paragraph.

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