Playing with Time: Use Pacing to Keep Readers Wanting More

Playing with Time: Use Pacing to Keep Readers Wanting More

In this course, you’ll discover how to use pacing techniques to build tension, emphasize important story events, and increase your readers’ engagement.

SECTION 1
In Section 1 we’ll explore story pacing with its three different timing clocks, and a formula that can help you control the relationship between time, speed, viewpoint depth, and emotional intensity. 

• Introduction - the Confusion of Pacing

• The 3 Clocks of Storytelling

• The Storyteller's Pacing Formula

SECTION 2
In Section 2 we’ll look at the way a reader’s perception of time fluctuates with the level of excitement, and study techniques you can use to fine-tune pacing and control your readers’ level of excitement.   

• Scenes, Sequels, and Pacing

• Reader's Perception of Time and Sequels

• Pacing Techniques

• Pacing, Emotional Intensity, and Viewpoint

SECTION 3
In Section 3 we’ll study the effect different writing modes have on pacing, and how you can control pacing using these modes.

• How to Control Pacing with Fiction Delivery Modes: Dramatic Summary, Dramatic Action, Dialogue, Narration, Description, and Exposition. (Dramatic )

SECTION 4
In Section 4 we'll explore the structure of Scenes and Sequels more deeply, examining the relationship between Fiction Delivery Modes and Scene and Sequel.

• Scene and Sequel: the Building Blocks of Fiction

• Scene and Sequel meets Fiction Delivery Modes 

SECTION 5

• Practice Exercise: Analyzing Pacing using Fiction Delivery Modes

I designed this course for writers who want to improve their control over pacing to keep readers wanting more.  The only requirement for enrolment is a willingness to learn.

Feel free to check out the course video here on the landing page, and preview the free lessons.

I look forward to seeing you in the class.

Have a great day, and may the muse be with you.

Vanessa Grant

Learn effective pacing techniques to fine-tune story rhythm while maximizing reader engagement.

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What you will learn

• Identify three different kinds of time in storytelling, and the formula that cuts through the confusion of pacing.
• Discover how pacing controls the reader's perception of time.
• Use your understanding of the six primary fiction delivery modes to analyze pacing.

Rating: 4.45

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Vanessa Grant