evolution_rex
Inkling
I wrote a short story recently and I had a lot of fun writing it, but when I reread it so I could revise it and I knew I'd messed up. I let my brother read it and he confirmed by fears. Although it had some structural issues, the main problem why nothing worked was in pacing. I've ran into this issue before, and now I realize that it's a problem I heavily suffer from.
I understand that more detail added to less eventful scenes can create slower pacing and that quicker sentences added to more eventful scenes can create faster pacing, but I still feel like I'm failing somewhere. Everything comes off as either monotone or confusing with too many things happening.
I think part of the problem to is that pacing is not something I notice in other people's work and thus I have a hard time identifying it in my own. I've not read something and thought 'woah, that pacing was really off.' I hardly ever see other writers discuss it or have problems with it too. But it seems like such a huge part of writing because it makes or breaks a story, and I just do not know what I'm doing when it comes to it.
tldr; how do I improve pacing or get a better understanding of it?
I understand that more detail added to less eventful scenes can create slower pacing and that quicker sentences added to more eventful scenes can create faster pacing, but I still feel like I'm failing somewhere. Everything comes off as either monotone or confusing with too many things happening.
I think part of the problem to is that pacing is not something I notice in other people's work and thus I have a hard time identifying it in my own. I've not read something and thought 'woah, that pacing was really off.' I hardly ever see other writers discuss it or have problems with it too. But it seems like such a huge part of writing because it makes or breaks a story, and I just do not know what I'm doing when it comes to it.
tldr; how do I improve pacing or get a better understanding of it?