For those of you who liked "Before Closing", it now has a sequel: "Before Dark".

Remember how Bluebell and Aegis said they'd meet up together in a year? It's five years later when they finally do meet up. They have a lot of catching up to do in what little time they have.

Because I wanted to and why not?

Anyway, pacing: how fast or slow a story moves and how the audience is engaged in it. I have no idea why, but it's one of the things I look at the most when I'm deciding whether a story is good or not. Is it fast? Slow? Could it afford to be faster? Slower?

So, what's good pacing? This is good pacing, as shown by Star Wars:

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If you're anything like me, when you see a story (completed or not) that looks interesting but is incredibly long, you stick it in your "Read it Later" queue, eventually download it for your e-reader when you've got time to kill, read it, and are either impressed by its plot and character arcs and worldbuilding, or disappointed because the pacing is glacial and a ten thousand word chapter can be nothing more than, "Cool train, innit?" (I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP OR EXAGGERATING.) But

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Wow. I just finished writing a good-length novel. Updated weekly. For over half a year. Never missed an update. And, no, I didn't have it all written to begin with; I generally had a buffer of one or two chapters at any time. Having a fanbase helped a lot with motivation, so thank you for your support and critiques.

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So, at the advice of a commenter and the spirit of spreading the word, I'm mentioning that I wrote a sequel to "Tantabus, Mk. II": http://www.fimfiction.net/story/342603/aunthood-issues

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