In this video we'll be looking at pacing and how it relates to various fiction delivery modes. These are also known as modes of discourse, or perhaps writing styles. fiction writers tell their stories using a mixture of different fiction delivery modes, these different modes of discourse can be manipulated to control pacing in your story. JACK Becca identifies six different modes of discourse in writing and selling your novel. From the fastest pace to the slowest. They are dramatic summary.

This is the fastest moving mode and it's a condensed series of dramatic elements. dramatic action slightly slower than dramatic summary. It's the stuff scenes are made of action is on stage and the reader sees it. Dialogue slower than dramatic action. This is the character's words spoken without summary. NARRATION This is the detailed telling of important events and it's slower paced than dialogue.

Description, even slower description halts the action with information about the story World Exposition. This is the slowest form is dedicated to the communication of pure factual information. Let's take a take a deeper look at each of these modes of discourse.