pacing

Hey all, I'm working on a dark fantasy horror novel, and I've hit a structural problem I'm curious how others handle. My opening chapters are deliberately quiet. My main character is tracking someone through a rainy river town: talking to a crooked toll clerk, reading ledgers, buying drinks for...

Hi all, I've tried to search for this in previous posts and haven't come up with much. I am well into the first draft of my novel, and I find myself 8 chapters in and the characters are still not moving on from the first location. The chapters are around 10 to 16 pages long, and I am dealing...