I do my best work at 2AM. Looking over the chapter again, I realize that the pacing is actually better than it is in most of my other chapters. I was just being a deluded nitwit yesterday.

I think what's happening in my work, while different, is similar enough that your advice will come in handy. Thanks much.

I have to keep it all in one document, because I'm always scrolling up to make sure I'm not contradicting myself. Plus I tweak too much to go through the trouble of opening separate docs for each chapter.

Does anyone else find themselves pacing things way to fast? I find that I say in one page what would take most writers 10 and what would take Stephen King 100.

I don't think this is always a problem. I start nodding off when writers dedicate more than two sentences to describing something, so I tend to only ever give any given character or object in my novel a single sentence of description wherever such brevity is possible (though I do, of course, dwell on fun things like eviscerations).

The downside is that sometimes--especially in the longer chapters where a lot is happening--this pace can be exhausting. I wrote a 4000 word chapter the other day (4000 words for a chapter is positively epic by my standards) and no matter how I tweak it, I can't make it read like it wasn't written by an overzealous crackhead. By the 1000 word mark, every sentence is crashing into every sentence the follows. Reading it feels like running a marathon where the hurtles are all placed three inches apart.

Is there any way I can fix the pacing without making the chapter boring by my own standards? 

Kay.

fuck

Is that okay to say here? Because I usually talk like a character from a Quentin Tarantino movie, but I've been making an effort to keep myself PG-13 around here. Can I drop F-bombs too, or do I have to wait until I get my own forum?