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In Vanessa Grant's Powerful Pacing for Storytellers, you'll discover how to build tension, emphasize important events, and control your story's pacing while increasing the reader's engagement. You'll explore story pacing with its three different timing clocks and a formula that can help you control the relationship between time, speed, viewpoint depth, and emotional intensity. Then you'll go on to look at the way a reader's perception of time fluctuates with the level of excitement, and we'll study the techniques you can use to control pacing and your reader's level of excitement. And finally, you'll study the effect that different writing modes have on pacing, and how you can control pacing and speed using these modes.

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"Vanessa Grant began her literary career writing the column A Letter From Lucy Island Lighthouse for a small northern British Columbia newspaper. She has written over 30 romance novels, been translated into 15 languages, and sold over 10 million copies of her books worldwide. She has also taught writing workshops in Canada, the U.S.A., Australia, and New Zealand. Vanessa's non-fiction book Writing Romance won the Under the Covers literary award and was described in a National Writer's Monthly review as ""by far the best writing book I have ever read."" Vanessa can be found online at VanessaGrant.com, Facebook.com/vanessagrantauthor, and on Twitter as @Vanessa_Grant"

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