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Writing Fundamentals: Pacing 101

Overcome your fear of marketing and learn how to connect your book with the readers who will love it.

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Writing Fundamentals: Pacing 101

Writing Fundamentals: Pacing 101

Overcome your fear of marketing and learn how to connect your book with the readers who will love it.

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Pacing isn’t luck. It isn’t “voice.” It isn’t adding more explosions. It’s control.

In this two-hour craft workshop, we’ll dig into how genre fiction manipulates momentum, how thrillers tighten the vise, how fantasy escalates stakes without exhausting the reader, how horror stretches tension until it snaps, and how romance turns anticipation into ache. We’ll dissect examples, expose common pacing myths, and translate theory into concrete techniques you can apply the same day.

By the end, you won’t just have a better sense of pacing, you’ll know how to engineer it. Deliberately, and relentlessly.

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Ages 14 and up are welcome.

Instructor
Emily Smiley

Emily, a writer from South Carolina who now calls Seattle home, crafts stories that reflect the world back to her readers, inviting them to explore deeper truths within themselves. Her novel, Treading Water, came in first in the horror category of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Writers' Association (PNWA) unpublished competition. She’s the programming coordinator for the Writer’s Studio at BARN. She’s also a member of the PNWA and the Seattle Chapter of the Horror Writers Association. Emily is a co-founder of Content Hospital, a speculative fiction writers marketing collective, and is represented by A.J. Van Belle at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. When she’s not giving her readers nightmares, she’s running, traveling, reading, or playing video games.

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