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21.26: Setting the Pace

Writing Excuses by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler

Jun 28, 202624:22Arts

Our hosts explore the many tools writers can use to control pacing. We discuss how cadence, transitions, tone, sentence structure, and white space can all speed up or slow down a reader’s experience. And remember, fast i...

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21.26: Setting the Pace is an episode from Writing Excuses by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. Our hosts explore the many tools writers can use to control pacing. We discuss how cadence, transitions, to...

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Published Jun 28, 2026, 24:22 long, audio available.