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The Story Department

Common sense for the writing folk

How’s Your Pacing: Rushing Or Dragging?

January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 by Karel FG Segers

Pacing is critical. Rush through the story, and viewers struggle to understand what is going on. Slow down too much, and they get bored. How do you manage the pacing and rhythm of a story? Can you fix it in post?

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Writing Scripts

  • How’s Your Pacing: Rushing Or Dragging?
  • Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan: Power, Politics & Progress
  • Why Taylor Sheridan Is The Most Relevant American Screenwriter
  • FORMATTING TIP: Accent, dialect and foreign language in dialogue
  • Wow Them In The End – Give Your Screen Story An Amazing Ending
  • Courses, Books & Consults Won’t Cut It.
  • Bad Hombres, Good Homages And Effective Character Intros
  • FORMATTING TIP: Superimposed Text + Over Black
  • Final Draft 10 Reviewed
  • Kung Fu Hustle [Sixty Seconds of Suspense]
  • Scene Structure With Aaron And Gust
  • Aaron Sorkin Master Class: Do It! [not for the reason you think]
  • Ex Machina’s Secrets Show Garland’s Directing Genius
  • Jimmy McGovern: Soap Writer With Substance
  • William Friedkin And The Faces Of The 70’s

Story Development

  • How’s Your Pacing: Rushing Or Dragging?
  • Ready To Break Rules? One Word Will Tell.
  • Reading Screenplays — Without Wasting Your Time
  • Taming The Industry Standard 1-Page Synopsis
  • Wow Them In The End – Give Your Screen Story An Amazing Ending
  • Masks, Archetypes and Metaphors [and why the Donald doesn’t don]
  • The Dreaded Passive Protagonist Will Never Kill Your Script Again
  • Courses, Books & Consults Won’t Cut It.
  • The Idea: The Seven Elements Of A Viable Story
  • “Set Up The Goal Before The End Of Act 1” – And Other Bad Screenwriting Advice

Pitching and Selling

  • Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan: Power, Politics & Progress
  • Why Taylor Sheridan Is The Most Relevant American Screenwriter
  • Taming The Industry Standard 1-Page Synopsis
  • Get Out Is An Instant-Classic [Five Reasons – And Spoilers]
  • 5 Reasons Why Loglines Are Incredibly Important
  • Is It Done? 7 Signs You’re Ready To Sell Your Script
  • Fantastic Story Ideas [And Where To Find Them]
  • 7 Reasons Why Spotlight Shouldn’t Have Been Made
  • Where Is Your Portfolio Website? [Marketing For Screenwriters]
  • Your Screenplay Will NOT Pay You Millions [About Hope and Hype]
  • Loglines Are The Key To Understanding Your Own Story
  • Stop Making Sense, Screenwriters!
  • What the Hell is High Concept?
  • The three phases of a Crowdfunding Campaign – the U-Curve Effect
  • Screenwriting Competitions Are Worth More Than You Think

Have you read these yet?

  • How’s Your Pacing: Rushing Or Dragging?
  • Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan: Power, Politics & Progress
  • Why Taylor Sheridan Is The Most Relevant American Screenwriter

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