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Violanthe
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PostToo fast paced?

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:45 pm
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We always hear about how our stories, especially the opening, should be fast-paced. But is there any such thing as packing in too much interest and intrigue.
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PostInfo overload...

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:21 pm
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This, too, is supposed to be a first-time author's error...

They pour so much love, energy and inspiration into their first book that they are left as one-hit wonders...

Um, I've been savaged in small-press for a short story that managed an information overload. Well, I should have stuck to the working title of 'Fast Forwards', but succumbed to temptation for a punning title...

( How do you have a one-word punning title ?? :wink: )
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PostDid you get my 'PM' ??

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:33 pm
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Hi, Violanthe, did you get my 'PM' on this topic ??

Did it support my contention ??
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:07 am
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I did get your PM. I didn't quite realize that it was attached to this topic. Why don't you post here in the topic?
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PostLength...

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:21 pm
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Um, the 'short' seemed a bit long for a forum post and, well, I'm not sure of the etiquette...
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:52 pm
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Nik, if you want to post links to your other websites or to your fiction, that's okay. Anyone who is a long-time and/or active member is allowed such freedom. Just be aware the people usually don't take the time to follow links or read other people's fiction in a discussion setting and outside of a workshop setting.
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PostPerhaps too fast-paced...

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:21 pm
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For those wondering just how fast may be too fast...

Bear in mind that the tale's working title was 'Fast Forward'...

https://alternatehistoryfictory.yuku.com/topic/1091
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PostToo Fast Paced?

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:32 am
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It's nice to have a piece of work to discuss for this topic. I looked at Nik's story, and I don't think it's too fast paced. I think it has information overload, which is not the same thing.

In this story, there seems to be the assumption that the reader knows a lot of stuff which, of course, the reader doesn't. So the reader is always playing catch-up.

The trick, I think, is to keep giving the reader just enough new information to make him feel that he is, sooner or later, going to understand it all. This is what keeps him reading, like hanging the carrot in front of the donkey to to keep him going. If the reader gets too far behind, he starts losing connection, and therefore interest.

As far as I could see from the first section, this story doles out enough usable information to keep me interested.

I picture overly-fast pacing to be more involved with events happening too quickly for the reader to follow them. Sort of like jump-cuts in movie editing, where you get displaced from your connection to the story because you get disoriented, and don't know where you are.


P.S. You should have kept the "Fast Forward" title for sure.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:11 pm
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Yes, I agree that a story with too fast a pace would have too many events in quick succession.
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