Data-Driven Story Craft (Part 2): Beats, Pacing, and Flow
· 12 min read
Many authors watch their dashboards and see the same dip: readers breeze through chapters 1–5, then stall. Sales of book two lag, even though reviews for book one glow. Something in the engine is misfiring between beats, not at the big story mile markers.
Let’s make it measurable, fixable, and repeatable.

