Reading Like a Writer: Pacing

Lately lots of people I know seem to be talking about pacing in novels. Pacing was the topic of discussion on kidlitchat a few weeks back, about the same time that a thread opened on my Vermont College of Fine Arts discussion board. These conversations were roughly coincident with the release of the final installment of Susanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay . Perhaps that was accidental; but because I think Collins has mastered the art of pacing, I'd like to take a closer look ...