In this video, I break down when to slow the pace for character development and when to maintain momentum using examples from both literary fiction and thrillers.
This question is I think a little complicated and quite nuanced so I want to read it for you word for word if a character driven twist feels authentic but slows pacing and A plot driven twist maintains momentum, but feels slightly forced.
How do you choose? Interesting I would say you never do anything that feels forced. So let’s just take that off the table So what I’m going to address is it okay to sometimes slow the pace and the answer for that really depends on what Genre you’re working in if you are writing literary fiction and you’ve had some momentum and other things happening and it’s not at all infrequent to allow or uncommon to allow readers to take a breath so that the pace organically slows and that would be a beautiful place for a character driven twist.
I can really see that on the other hand if you’re writing a thriller which goes from one twist to the next to the next and just fierce momentum We might want to slow the pace so the challenge then becomes how do I embrace this character driven twist? without slowing the momentum and That’s where I would be focusing and where my attention would go.
I Can’t wait to hear how you handled it and what worked best and how you made the decision I read all the comments and I’d love to read yours thank you so much for that and if you Found this tip of value. Would you like it? Would you share it? Would you subscribe because that opens up features that lets us make these videos even more valuable?
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