The hardest question in writing: pacing (part 1)
How to pace a story, scene, or event
“Pacing” is a catch-all term for how fast or slow something occurs, but we have sentence-level pacing, paragraph-level pacing, scene-level pacing, and so on, all the way up to story-level pacing. Pacing is fractal up until it’s not. Not very helpful, I’m afraid, but there it is. Let’s tackle it anyway.
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