Issue 22 Back Articles Quicken Loans. Customized Solutions for Every Solution. Not every action in a story can be told in 'real time', but sometimes the information is still needed, that's when you summarize. Human rights issues, women's rights, the unborn's rights, gay and lesbian rights, minority bills and equality issues, asylum, communism vs. capitalism, environmental issues, animal rights. Pacing - Pacing plays with the emotions of your readers.
Crucial scenes move fast, action scenes move faster, reflection is slow like a relaxing bath.
A slower pace in between scenes permits tension to rise as the next level of danger arises. Find out where and how to use pacing in your stories. Character Sheets - These 10 facts will give you enough info to reveal how your characters will react in any given situation and is general enough to fill in quickly without sticking to the here and now of contemporary fiction. People from a character's past make good fiction. All characters have a history and that history involves family, teachers, old friends and lovers.