3 Techniques to Fix Your Pacing

There’s a writing skill that many novelists struggle with.

It’s something that read-a-chapter-a-month critique groups often miss.

Pacing.

We all know that you need to start off with an inciting incident — at least by the end of the first chapter. But after there, it can get a bit fuzzy.

3 Techniques To Help Your Pacing

When Your Fantasy Novel Sounds Too Modern

When Your Fantasy Novel Sounds Too Modern

Ways I Made My Language More Fantastic

  • Step 1 – I googled ‘formal English’ and ‘polite language’
  • Step 2 – I replaced informal words with more formal ones, particularly during dialogue
  • Step 3 – As I read along the paragraphs around those edits, I looked for other phrases that stuck out as ‘too modern’ and replaced those as well.

But be careful…