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title: Pacing Review
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category: Story Health
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tags: story health, pacing, revision
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contextKey: storyHealth.pacingReview
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micro: Find sustained metric runs that may affect pacing.
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quickTitle: Pacing review
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quickSummary: Pacing Review highlights repeated high or low metric patterns that may deserve revision attention.
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screenshot:
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# Overview
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Pacing Review looks for sustained runs in scene metrics. It helps identify sections that may feel too flat, too intense or too similar for too long.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use it when readers may need relief, escalation, contrast or a clearer rhythm.
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# How To Use It
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Read the note, open the relevant scene range and decide whether the pattern is intentional.
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# Example
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Three high-tension scenes in a row might be thrilling, or exhausting if none of them changes the story.
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# Writer Tip
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Pacing is contrast plus consequence.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Lowering intensity just because a run is long.
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- Ignoring a flat run that was not intended.
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- Forgetting quiet scenes can still be powerful.
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# Related Guides
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- [Story Health](/Help/Article/storyHealth.overview)
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- [Scene Metrics](/Help/Article/sceneMetrics.overview)
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