Use buffer pages more often to move the story along or not?

@marygold C Cheng
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 03:53:03 +0000

@marygold wrote:

So I've been feeling like my story has been moving slowly, and I'm so close to the climax but looking at my planning, getting even to that part may take another month or two which I really don't want to go through. I'm also thinking my readers are probably getting bored. I've already cut so many parts of my script out to be more concise and at this point I don't think I can cut any more without sounding rushed.

I currently don't have many buffer pages right but I've been working at a steady pace. It's pretty easy for me to get one or two pages ahead now. I'm wondering if I should speed up my regular schedule but risk maybe running into deadline stress problems or continue my current one update a week and save up on buffers but have to stretch out my chapter.

Seriously though, I'm only on my pilot chapter and it's been more than a year. And I'm approaching 80 pages. I think I have serious pacing problems.

EDIT: sorry I didn't mean cash in everything at once. I meant speed up my schedule to cash in more often (but not at once)