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

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Is the Mayaville Prose More Action-Packed Than the Lee Child's Program?

The Mayaville prose gave us only a tiny amount of action for the amount of words that I was reading. Lee Child does have action-packed description at times where he'll have like a few paragraphs that are longer and describe the scene but it's still kind of like getting you into the action in some way or kind of like setting up the action. Shorter and choppier reads faster, so does lots of active verbs and then adjectives adverbskind of like dependent clauseslike more kind of big thinky words kind of slows it down a little bit yeah as we go on.

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