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Showing posts with label pacing. Show all posts

Showing posts with label pacing. Show all posts

Monday, November 03, 2025

How Long Should Your Novel Be?

by Thomas Kies I’ve been reading the effusive reviews for a novel called Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski. The critics are ecstatic. T...

Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Timing and the Big Reveal

Last week, Sybil posted about the importance of pulling the various threads and subplots of the book together at the same time at the end o...

Friday, January 13, 2017

Thrilling in Slow Motion

I have to catch an early train down to New York City. So I'm going to make this post brief and interactive. As you may recall, one of ...

Friday, September 30, 2016

The Fine Art of Pacing

I finished a really, really fast-paced novel a couple of days ago. The characters were interesting and well-developed, the plot hung togethe...

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