In this video, we'll be talking about three different kinds of time. Why is pacing so confusing? Well, maybe it's because storytelling involves three different kinds of time. There's the time that passes in the characters lives during the story. We call out storytime. Then there's the time you or I spend reading the book, reader time.

And finally we have writer time, the time it takes the author to write the book. So, cc to understand why it can be confusing to look at what we really mean when we say the pacing is too fast, too slow or just off. I'm going to use my 19th novel The touch of love as an example. Here's the story setup. Melody. The heroine is a songwriter living on a remote island on Canada's West Coast.

Scott works as captain of an icebreaker in the Arctic oil fields. When his sister dies, she custody of her infant son to Scott in her will. The story opens with Scott traveling with the baby on his way to confront the baby's father. Melody's twin brother Robin is the baby's father, but not only is he currently out of reach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, he also has no idea he's become a father. A lot is going to happen before my hero and heroine come to their happy ending. They'll have to travel the emotional distance from solitude to partnership during the hundred and five days from April 8 to July 22.

In their story world. pacing is about how I as the author, allocate my 55,000 words of story over 105 days of storytime, while keeping the reader interested. We'll take a look at that in the next video. Thanks for watching, and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.