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Posts Tagged structure

A few words on pacing and structure

On July 6, 2009   /   Writing  
Tags: basic writing, pace, structure

The “different panel” at 4th Street this year was on pacing and structure. I’ve been pondering it since then, and this is what I think (or part of it, anyway): Pacing is how fast it feels like things happen. Not how fast they actually do happen; what it feels like

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