…let’s get one thing understood from the outset… well, two things really… first of all, I’m not a guru on this stuff… this is just an ol’ Jurassic scribbler’s opinion… secondly, the WURD‘pace’ doesn’t necessarily mean ’speed’, especially in the context of yer writing… we all know there are tons of different JONGRRs yeez can scribble in… from romantic, historical, YA, crime, biographical, sports… whatever… some types lend themselves more readily to prosaic lengthy descriptive narrative… others, punchy, compact, hurl-yeez-to-the-last-paragraph stuff… all are legitimate… and each attracts its own ‘pace’… but I think it’s important for an Author to understand which ‘pace’ best suits his or her own chosen niche… fr’example, I write crime thrillers loaded with action sequences… and the length of each novel (the notorious WURD-count nonsense) rarely exceeds 70,000 WURDS…

…I learned early in this quill-scraping gig, that most times…