Friday, 13 July 2012

Tip #250: The long & short of it


theoretically I knew that chapters don’t all have to be about the same length.  Eric {Flint} made it real to me... Five hundred word scenes became chapters.  A single telegram became a chapter... I discovered this was a technique that would make a particular scene or elements in that scene stand out and be more memorable than they would have been had they been buried in longer chapters.


http://www.fictorians.com/2012/05/28/anatomy-of-a-collaboration/
The same technique can be used with paragraphs or sentences.

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