Writers Write shares writing prompts and writing resources. Use these writing prompts for November 2024 to get you writing.
Hello Writer
As I mentioned, we are going to use our prompts to practice our craft.
(NOTE: You will receive your monthly prompts as always, but this year I would like you to focus on specific aspects of your novel. This is, of course, entirely optional. You can also use the prompts to free-write.)
Pacing
This month, I want you to focus on pacing. Pacing is tricky in that we need to evaluate the book as a whole to determine if our pacing works or not. We don’t want to go too fast, but we also don’t want the story to lag.
Think about the effect you want to create in each scene but also about how the speed of that scene affects the book as a whole. Towards the end of our story, in most cases, the pace will increase, but in certain scenes, we will deliberately slow down.
When the love interest finally kisses the protagonist or when the protagonist finally faces their nemesis we need time to savour the experience. You have spent all the previous scenes building up to these climatic moments. We can’t rush past, but if it is the 34th kiss then we can speed up a bit unless something is different or there is an escalation of the events. You will have to evaluate each scene.
Use the prompts and these techniques to speed up and slow down. These are not necessarily scenes that will be used in your book, but rather scenes that will help you evaluate the speed of specific scenes.
Read:
In this post, I share 13 different techniques to speed up and slow down.
Next month we will look at the ending of your story.
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Happiness
Mia
by Mia Botha
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