I have noticed that I tend to pace different stories differently, and one of the tools I use for this is control of chapter length. On one extreme, I wrote His Recipe For Love (NSFW, it's an erotic horror story with both sex and gore, set two and a half centuries before the series) as a single 11,334 word long chapter, something I did intentionally so that the reader would not break at any point, but instead absorb

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His brow creased with concentration, Lofting set the ruler across the map, made a few fine adjustments, and traced a line from East to West. This done, he studied his handiwork a moment, laid his tools aside, and stabbed a fingertip upon where the pencil marks crossed. "That is where we must go," he said.

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Hey, guys!

So I just published a new story. Ish. It’s sort of a new story, in the way that a knuckle sandwich is technically a sandwich, or that Subway is “health food.” Except, like, sort of the opposite... I don’t know where I was going with that comparison.

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Let's take a little dive into one of my favorite means of giving exposition without slowing down the story: the lore snippet.

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