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• ‟ Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

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• ‟ Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

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• ‟ Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

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• ‟ You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

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• ‟ Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

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