Thread:Urkelbot666/@comment-26268104-20161005193954/@comment-25021327-20161006013405

Hmmm. Well like anything else, it's all relative to the story and what kind of tone you want. Sometimes it's simply a stylistic choice. I, for instance tend to have slower pacing, and let scenes go longer than some other writers would for the same scene. However, this is not always a good thing, speaking personally, as longer scenes containing descriptions can be alienating to people who are more interested in the plot moving along than in reading about details that they feel don;t matter. Sometimes having a long scene can seem frivolous.

I think that the best way to determine something like that is to run it by a few people if you are unsure about the length of a part. What you think is adequate description and explanation might not be enough for some readers who are bugged by possible plot holes or things that are "glazed over." Conversely, something you think might need a lot of time to get your point across about might seem redundant to readers who want to move along, and aren;t as concerned with all the ins and outs.

I think that if you are writing about something that you think people might not understand fully, or something that maybe you had to research yourself before writing, it's okay to let that go on a little long, but still do it in broad strokes. Overly detailed stuff (which I sometimes tend to do) can turn people off.

Depending on how long you want your story to be and what kind of structure you have, it might be worth it to try to set it up as a series of segments, say, three acts each containing three parts, containing three scenes (or whatever breakdown works best) having a main goal for each scene, part, and act (introduce x-character, tell about a certain past event, describe an important plot point, establish all facts needed for an upcoming event, etc.). Depending on the number of parts or scenes, maybe try to have each one be about the same amount of words, then in another draft see if any parts/scenes seem to go too fast or too slowly. That may be a little too simplistic, but it could also be worth trying.

Anyhow, I've blathered on long enough about that. Hopefully there was some scrap of somewhat useful information in there x3