#hin rambles

[thelaughingstag]

Don’t forget, it takes a hundred times longer to write a scene than it does to read one.

Starting to feel like this scene is dragging on and on? Feel like you’re hammering it to death? Give it a few days and reread it. Your pacing is probably way better than you think it is.

Related story below the cut if anyone is interested

I am rewriting my nano project. To give me a better sense of pacing, I put both the old draft and the new draft into roughly 9x5 page size (about the size of a general fantasy novel). When I was writing my original draft my pacing felt awesome. It was action packed and stuff was happening!

Well come to find out, I went from status quo to here’s my character’s big world changing event in 10, yes TEN pages and was ready to move onto the second act.

Is that a viable story structure? Sure but I had rushed into the action so much that there wasn’t much world to change. It took away from the impact of it.

Now it feels like I’m slogging through scenes and people are going to get horribly bored. After a reread? I realized my pacing is actually pretty spot on for a draft, it only feels long because it takes a writer 10 minutes to craft a lovely sentence and less than 10 seconds to read it.

Don’t let the bog get you down. You are crafting. Let it take time.