Marta wrote:It gave me exactly what I needed.
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saoir wrote:Thanks Hugh - I think I have been reading too many books recently where there seems to be no real reason behind chapters other than a break.
Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:20 am Post
pigfender wrote:I think that chapters are at their best when they are nothing but a break; a form of hard punctuation used to help control the pacing of the piece.
Generally speaking (in my mind at least), if you are using large sections to dictate changes in tone, or substantial geographical, temporal or other shifts in perspective... then that's a Part, not a Chapter.
Ultimately, though, it's a question of semantics. There is no right way to write, and no right way to structure... as long as it works!
Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:08 pm Post
From a plethora of differing perspectives, that's one word that perfectly sums up the writing process. Hairy-arsed or not, that's the welder in you, coming out.Jaysen wrote:may be malleable under many circumstances.
Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:30 pm Post
Just saying that most of the books I have read in the last couple of years have shown no pattern or flow in their use of chapters. More as you say, a hard pause, and an easy way of remembering where I stopped readingpigfender wrote:saoir wrote:Thanks Hugh - I think I have been reading too many books recently where there seems to be no real reason behind chapters other than a break.
Too many?
I think that chapters are at their best when they are nothing but a break; a form of hard punctuation used to help control the pacing of the piece.
Generally speaking (in my mind at least), if you are using large sections to dictate changes in tone, or substantial geographical, temporal or other shifts in perspective... then that's a Part, not a Chapter.
Ultimately, though, it's a question of semantics. There is no right way to write, and no right way to structure... as long as it works!
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