The Secret to Great Pacing
And "Write for Readers" by Junot Diaz & Writing Prompts
How to write a well-paced novel? The video below offers great advice I’ve never heard. I hope it’s of help to you as well.
Shaelin’s premise is that chapters are the building blocks of your book, so consider carefully what a chapter should be for a particular project and you’ll be ahead of the game.
The beauty of this method is that you can readily vary the pace as you go.
For example, to achieve really slow pacing, you could employ a 3-chapter arc for each major event. Or you could just stretch out the lengths of the chapters!
A chapter in Shaelin’s view in the video below is defined as:
basically, a short story
4,000 to 6,000 words
the main character makes a decision in each chapter
Great writing prompts
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/fiction/
Set your story/chapter in the stands at a major sporting event
Set your story during a total eclipse
Write a story based around one predominant feeling, such as rejection or acceptance, fear or fearlessness, etc.
What exactly is a rough draft?
What exactly is a rough draft? How should we think about it? I know it's important to think about it correctly, because if we don't, it can sabotage our writing process. You can certainly make the mistake of the Perfectionist. I used to be a Perfectionist. I used to put too much pressure on my rough drafts (you might do the same).
Glad you liked it! I believe that was in regard to my training. My first few writing workshops, I later felt, while very high quality, in retrospect sort of trained us all to be perfectionists, going over and over the same work instead of covering more ground. I feel it's very important to go the distance and complete a project rather than come away with 1 or 2 perfect pages. Maybe it's the nature of workshops to revise and revise and critique and revise, but I am against it.
hi Laura ------ i was curios concerning your comment about you being a perfectionist in your past writing life concerning rough drafts etc etc -------- what were a few of the mental thoughts and or characteristics of that perfectionist thought ??????????and i did watch Shaelinwrites her character and spirit is most lovely indeed========= Cheers mate !!!!! -----------