Jun 11, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 10 segments
Two writers with slow-burn allegations spill everything they know about pacing--and they do promise it doesn’t lag in the middle. Mer and Bri discuss the somewhat nebulous concept of pace, while also…
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Brianna LabuskesHost
Meredith HambrockHost
I think with pacing, I think pacing is one of, I personally find it one of the harder things about writing like as the craft, like to hit it right.
And I also think you're right with like, it also feels kind of like a nebulous concept, right? Like it tends to be one of those things that readers label when they don't like a book.
So you're like, oh, well the pacing was off and, and, You know, that's just kind of a gut feeling of like, was it too fast or was it too slow? I think we both get slow burn allegations.
is when your book is, you know, this is a slow burn, which means it's like slow in the beginning and then it picks up, I think, at the end, really.
And I think that if you start shoving everything, like we were talking about in the previous episode with inciting incidents, if you start just shoving everything in the beginning, your pace is inevitably going to feel off towards the end.
Yeah, so I was trying to kind of think about how to talk about it for this episode.
I think with pacing, I think pacing is one of, I personally find it one of the harder things about writing like as the craft, like to hit it right.
And I also think you're right with like, it also feels kind of like a nebulous concept, right? Like it tends to be one of those things that readers label when they don't like a book.
So you're like, oh, well the pacing was off and, and, You know, that's just kind of a gut feeling of like, was it too fast or was it too slow? I think we both get slow burn allegations.
is when your book is, you know, this is a slow burn, which means it's like slow in the beginning and then it picks up, I think, at the end, really.
And I think that if you start shoving everything, like we were talking about in the previous episode with inciting incidents, if you start just shoving everything in the beginning, your pace is inevitably going to feel off towards the end.
Yeah, so I was trying to kind of think about how to talk about it for this episode.
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