"Wouldn't it be terrible if Bob was sitting on the other side of that screen? Hearing everything we've been saying?" No sooner had the words left...
How do you write a story and control the pacing of it, I want the beginning of my story to start of slow with exposition (but not too much) I...
Pacing, for me, is one of the most difficult scene-building techniques to learn. It's not what happens, but how long it takes to happen and what...
I've had this story idea bouncing around for awhile now, but I've had a ton of trouble writing and pacing it, and I think I've finally put my...
So I'm trying to write a first contact short story. It goes like this: [SPOILER] Here's the thing. I've tried writing it before. But it was...
I don't remember who or exactly which thread it was that I saw on here about chapter length and whether it's important. Anyway, I found an article...
(NOTE: My story is written in first-person.) Upon flipping back through what I've written so far in my current story, I've found that almost...
How can you really judge the pacing of your writing? Are things moving quickly? Too fast? Too slow? And how are you supposed to know if the pacing...
I am struggling with the pacing of my story, and the events often seem out of proportion with one another. Does anyone have any tips or advice?...
I haven't come to on the forums to play lately, being tied up trying to get my novel's cover just right. So tonight I'm working on the cover...
So my current project is sitting at 60k words; I try to keep my novels around the 100k mark, but it isn't hard and fast; I won't go below 80k...
Hi folks, Looking for some opinions. I'm currently on chapter four of my WIP. It's a dystopian world written in third person omniscient. The...
Hello! Pretty new writer but I've been writing a long time as a hobby. So I was wondering about pacing. I always feel like I'm going too fast,...
To make this short I'm attempting to write a tv show in my spare time focousing around the relationship between two friends following one of them...
Yesterday I prematurely launched a short story towards an ezine and promptly cancelled my submission today explaining I wanted to try again with a...
Hey, everyone. I'm working on my first novel, an urban fantasy/mystery set in Seattle. I've got the basics pretty much worked out. I know who...
I'm writing a rather long escape scene that follows an action scene. It involves the main characters having captured someone and transporting them...
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