Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard How do you create chapters? What are the rules for carving your manuscript into numbered chunks? Is chaptering part of your outline, is it something you discover while you write, or is it something else entirely? In this episode we talk about how we…
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley What makes a chapter? WHY is a chapter? How do we chapter, and do we always chapter the same way? Should our chapters be this many parts of speech? This episode will answer these questions and more, except for that last question,…
Words take time to read, but that’s not the same amount of time that the words communicate…
Mercedes Lackey joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to field listener questions at GenCon Indy.
How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?
We begin with an audio glitch and a jumbling of our usual intro. Why? Because it breaks rhythm, and sometimes you may actually want to do that. Narrative rhythm is the pattern of story elements and associated structures that help drive the reader’s pace through a book. Consciously managed, narrative…
