How can I give my fantasy series more words?

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I know!.!.!.it isn't a good idea to let the word count have any effect on your writing; though, in this case, I think it might be a sign that I'm moving too fast!. I have a lot of content like conversations and other events that happen throughout the books!. I do describe pretty much every place the characters go to and I describe what some of them are thinking at certain times!. Still, I haven't had more that 300 words of solid description about one thing!. Anyway, I'm not sure what the problem is!.!.!.but I know I'd like to make it go slower!. It really has nothing to do with the word count!. It just seems like it's one event after another, with long conversations in between!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It's about composition / pacing, not writing, but like music!. Listen to, say, Carmina Burana (Orff), full blast!. Stand up and feel the phrasing, the blocks, the movements!. Listen to it three or four times to see that the composition is a structure!. Stories have to have such structure, that balanced meaningful composition, too, to make them come alive and resonate!. Study not the words, sentences or paragraphs of other writings for awhile and instead blur your eyes and see the overall "chunks" of the composition!. Then, print out your story with one paragraph per sheet of paper and place it all out in sequence on the floor and walk around it, feel it, from the "chunks" perspective!. Divide it into not chapters but "movements"!. Compose then like Mozart, boldly, creatively juxtapositioning chunks in meaningful ways, ending here with peaceful tones and resurrecting immediately with high passion in the next, drawing out exquistie moments longer than natural here, smacking the reader with suddeness and brevity there!. When you sense your sculpture or composition, then go back to each paragraph and flesh it out one deeper level, tying it in with the entire composition!. By fleshing it out, I mean, as example: Original - "Sondra and the canoe had become as one!." Fleshed-out - "Sondra and the canoe had become as one, not in mere partnership but in some sublime and cosmic covenant!."Www@QuestionHome@Com