Like marathon runners, breakdancers, and zumba instructors, storytellers have to always be considering their pace. Go too fast, readers can't keep up. Go too slow, readers get bored. But how do writers figure out the best pace, and how to ebb and flow with it? How can we use dialogue effectively and avoid the soap opera overdoing-it (“It is I! You’re mother’s half sister’s twin who married your brother who is really your robot father!” *DUN DUN DUN!*) In this episode we talk about how to keep the pace of a story productive and engaging, with a few tricks for dialogue and Story Time and killing your darlings.

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