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Post by fairlane on Jul 28, 2007 22:35:00 GMT -5
Lets discuss this...do you find it hard to pace your story? What makes the pacing of a story too fast or too slow?
Do you think that the dramatic event/s (whatever that may be) should peak near the end of the story? Does there even need to be one?
Or is it all down to personal preference?
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Post by Masquerade on Jul 30, 2007 11:16:06 GMT -5
Well...I have done both faster and slower-paced stories. Like mars, every chapter should have a point for being there, I think. Although I have been known to stretch a story out for ridiculous amounts of time because I don't want it to end.  I like slower-paced stories because you ease into the plot, and learn about the characters more. And yeah, I think it is partly just personal preference. |
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Post by zevie on Jul 30, 2007 21:52:22 GMT -5
I suck at pacing, too. I tell everything. I still haven't figured out how to smoothly cut to a later scene. I can tell when it gets boring, I think, so I end up throwing in too many important events during too short a period in the story.
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Post by fairlane on Aug 15, 2007 16:14:43 GMT -5
I find it so hard to move from one scene to the next. Slightly easier in fan fic I guess, since I can just cut to another pov or another chapter. Its hard to show time passing - I'll try to explain it in a sentence "he spent the afternoon watching tv" , and end up writing a whole scene about it, when its not even important.
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