 Hello everybody, E here welcome back from the desk today. We're gonna talk about pacing but first and foremost I want to talk about where I'm at with my writing and upcoming things Right now as of last week The day I will it would have been Monday the day after I recorded last week's from the desk I submitted the final on my end It still has to go through their editing and proofreading at thunderstorm books But the final draft of everything is horrible now that book is now finally gone off to the publisher I'm happy with it the way it is. Does that mean they're gonna be happy with it? No, but we'll find out when we get there Many thanks again to Gregor Zane to Sarah Frost to Thomas Stromquist I think that's everybody who read it before I think that's everybody if I missed you I apologize So that's where I am with and I'm working on a new book now And I have another actually I have two more books marinating So at this point I have one gone off to the publisher one that I'm actively editing One that I'm actively writing and one that's marinating actually. I lied. I haven't started editing yet I will start editing it today. Anyways Come next month the end of next month July 25th through the 27th. I'm going to be at Hoover sci-fi fantasy fest the Hoover public library in Hoover, Alabama Anthony Vaca was nice and I hope I got your last name, right? Was nice enough to invite me And I will be a vendor and I'll be speaking on four different panels then in October And this has to go into the from the desks. That's why I'm not going to give you a time signature So you can jump ahead. This is important if you are here to find out how to be a a professional independent author and how to make money and how to live off your work I am the reason why I haven't tackled that yet is because I'm doing an hour-long speech at the Hoover Public Library in October on October 27th I believe and I'll be going over everything it takes to actually get to the how I got to this level and Hopefully how you can try to get to this level, but everybody's different So finally getting into the pacing video Pacing is near and dear to my heart because I that's one of the things that and character dialogue are the two things that I want More than anything else like the story can go wherever it wants to go and that that's that's how I feel anyways It's gonna go naturally wherever it goes the things that I try to hone and work on and sculpt is Dialogue and pacing we've already talked about dialogue. So now we're talking about pacing also This was a request from somebody if you're watching this. I forgot who you are. I forgot your name And I don't even remember where you to talk to me about it whether it be Twitter or whatever So this one's for you. I apologize First thing you're gonna want to do with pacing is Your well not first thing but first thing I'm gonna talk about is you want to entertain yourself If at every put if at any point in time you're sitting there and you're gonna bump into this at any point in time You're sitting there going. I just want to get to the point You are screwing up You are not doing something right if you can't even entertain yourself and you're the one writing the story This is a story you want to tell then you're not gonna entertain anybody else Now should you push through in that that rough draft and get it done and then work on it? Yes Pacing and dialogue always need to be honed later on same with word choice in the narrative But I think we'll talk about that a little more in some other videos How to actually do rewrites and whatnot if you want to see that Leave comments. So first entertain yourself. That's the first topic of this discussion. The next one is because this Because pacing cannot be taught because pacing is subjective I think just about every single fantasy novel I've ever read is boring because they have to tell you so much information to build the world that you're just sitting there Chapter after chapter after chapter figuring out, you know, these characters in this world and all this and I'm usually all four character development What I don't care too much about is setting and that's what fantasy novels do they they well the ones I've read anyways They they're they're boring. I mean to me. So but many people that mean fantasy is a huge genre for a reason They feel that those you know those books I've read some people say that Terry good kinds the wizard the wizard's first rule moves Very quickly and I couldn't even get past the first hundred pages of it. It was a slog so entertaining yourself doesn't mean you're necessarily going to entertain other people which brings me to Actually doing it almost almost mathematically. So what I suggest is every single page on Every page there has to be something that moves the plot forward whether it be a piece of dialogue a piece of narrative Something that makes the reader feel like they are progressing now that doesn't have to be huge You don't have to have a twist on every single page What I'm talking about is just a little something that progresses to something that go makes the reader go Okay, there's some information. I didn't have on the last page that might sound difficult but if you if you take a huge and this is also how you can break up info dumps if You take a huge piece of information and chop it up and put it throughout a scene or several scenes or However, if you take that big info dump and chop it up you can stretch that out That's also that's also a good way to bring your short stories your novelettes your novellas up to novel territory I was asked this on Twitter the other night if you want to that's not necessarily filler filler is you know play Descriptions of places you're only gonna be for a second descriptions of people you're never gonna see again that kind of thing next up Cliffhanger chapters if you don't want people to put down your book don't give them any easy place to this might seem counter-intuitive And I there's probably some readers out there screaming. No do chapter I'm not talking about not putting chapters what I'm talking about is every single end of the chapter You want to end off that chapter with something that makes the reader want to keep on reading because if they put if they Want to put your book down. This is a problem Every single I look at every single chapter unless something like sound of broken ribs that only has page breaks I look at every single chapter as a short story the betting of boys Or better yet Bay's end is like this every single chapter or sub chapter leaves off on a cliffhanger There's some information on there. I've left some information out But each and every chapter has a beginning middle and an ending just like a short story But that ending is always a cliffhanger Next well the the last piece of information I want to give you is going back to there's a first or second episode I can't remember what I think it was a second beta readers because all of this stuff is subjective You're going to have to find Pre-readers who are not going to do editing for you who are only going to give you advice on how the story progresses Whether or not they are bored Whether there I have a really exceptional beta reader named Sarah Frost Well, and I just got one in the most recent one. She did was this is where the story slowed down to a crawl for me Now in the book it was supposed to there was so much information being thrown out there It was supposed to slow down for a bit. So I'm I wasn't too worried about it But and Sarah if you've reading this, thank you Watching this not reading this if you're watching this. Thank you but the The the point I'm trying to make here is you want to You want to try and garner all the information you can before you put this thing out in public in the public Now with beta readers one thing you have to you have to find are people with differing Opinions and differing tastes than you if you can find somebody who doesn't necessarily like your work that would be even better and To an extent I have that with Sarah. What I mean is I'm far more supernatural and existentialists and That she's she's made comments about how you know, that's not her preferred thing where I when I go off on tangents about crazy wacko stuff So that's why I send the stuff for because I know there's a lot of people that don't like that I'm trying to think if there's anything else. I think that's everything with pacing. That's how I do it anyways So you want to entertain yourself? You want every single page to move the plot forward? You want oh, I'm sorry. I did miss one. You want a big event to happen every 30 pages Every 30 pages you want something big something Well something that's natural. I don't want you forcing anything But some some big event that not only moves the plot forward, but makes people anxious you you want something whether it be you know Any any genre you can do this with even romance you want to throw some kind of drama in there every 30 pages I think that I think that's every like 10,000 Words roughly if you're not counting pages if you do the industry standard It's roughly I think every every 30 pages is 10,000 words every 10,000 words I think that's everything so If you have any questions leave them down there in the comments below and until next time I have any you've been You this has been from the desk talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye