It rained in California on Halloween. It's only rained on Halloween 5 times since 1987. It has a “remember when” vibe. Remember the year it rained, and we had to wear our jacket over our Spider-Man costume. The web shooters left disintegrating webs all over the place. Unusual moments feel like a freebie to a writer. It's a contrast to everything normal. That tension is built into the moment, setting the mood. It's the difference between " It was a normal day, and then

As someone who has been a devoted reader since a very young age, as well as a reviewer and author of fiction, story flow is something I've learned to feel intuitively without properly considering its defining nature. I'm not convinced it's simply another name for pacing. Perhaps a better way to describe it is a "momentum of attention. Momentum of Attention In physics, we learn that momentum is mass times velocity—you could think of it as the "staying power" behind something