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Pacing: Slow Down, Speed Up — Homework
Practice pacing choices, then apply them to your own draft.
- 1.Why should a story not give equal space to every moment?
- 2.Write a compressed summary sentence for "a whole ordinary month" in a story set in Ancient Egypt.
- 3.Expand this into a slowed-down scene: "The wall collapsed."
- 4.Should the most important moment in a story get more space or the same space as an ordinary moment?
- 5.Revise your own draft: compress one ordinary stretch and slow down your single most important moment.
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