A few words on pacing and structure

 The "different panel" at 4th Street this year was on pacing and structure. I've been pondering it since then, and this is what I think (or part of it, anyway):

Pacing is how fast it feels like things happen.  Not how fast they actually do happen; what it feels like to the reader-this is why sometimes the cure for a too-slow pace is to add more material, and the cure for a too-fast one is to cut something.  It has to do, frequently, with how much story-stuff is coming at the reader how rapidly.