I’ve been rewriting the first six chapters of my book, because when I initially wrote them and then went to reread them, I was bored to tears. I figured that was a bad sign, so I just went in early and rewrote with a better picture and tone in mind. Doing that got me thiking baout your pacing in a novel, because while I had plotted out the initial 12 chapters of my book, when I went to write it with that outline I found it was entirely too slow. Now with this rewrite, it’s got the same sort of things happening, but at a faster pace. I’ve been liking it better, and I think the tone of the novel so far isn’t struggling under the wait of being meandering.
That got me thinking though, what do you consider good pacing? Because I’ve read some stories that have one thing happen, then another. Others are totally more character based, which is what mine leans more towards, and while if you were to point by point say what happened, not much would have happened as far as the storyline is concerned. But being in the characters heads, and seeing how they deal with situations makes it feel like a lot more is happening in the story.
What sort of pacing do yu like in your story, I guess is what I was thinking about. Because I prefer less events happening, and more time spent with the characters. If the characters changed because of staying in one storyline for a long time, it doesn’t bother me, but I could totally see it bothering some people and having more plot based point A to point B be a more even pacing Or, none of this makes sense, and I’m just waxiing poetic right now
That got me thinking though, what do you consider good pacing? Because I’ve read some stories that have one thing happen, then another. Others are totally more character based, which is what mine leans more towards, and while if you were to point by point say what happened, not much would have happened as far as the storyline is concerned. But being in the characters heads, and seeing how they deal with situations makes it feel like a lot more is happening in the story.
What sort of pacing do yu like in your story, I guess is what I was thinking about. Because I prefer less events happening, and more time spent with the characters. If the characters changed because of staying in one storyline for a long time, it doesn’t bother me, but I could totally see it bothering some people and having more plot based point A to point B be a more even pacing Or, none of this makes sense, and I’m just waxiing poetic right now