Playing with Time: Use Pacing to Keep Readers Wanting More

Description

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

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.
• Use pacing to make your story more powerful and keep your readers wanting "more"
• Control pacing using the relationship between Scene and Sequel and Fiction Delivery Modes
• Understand pacing's relationship to "camera angle", depth of viewpoint, emotional intensity, and scene and sequel.

Who Should Attend!

• Storytellers who want to keep readers interested throughout their stories.

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