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Pace Yourself: An Exercise to Create Rhythm in Your Writing

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Mary Carroll Moore
Oct 07, 2008
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Like changing seasons that move elegantly into each other, a good book has an almost invisible rhythm called pacing.

Excellent pacing creates music a reader can resonate with. Pacing makes writing memorable.

An Important Tool for Your Writing
Pacing is one of the most complex and exciting tools in book writing. It’s the speed of the story, the balance of …

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