![]() Now that you know this, you can write out on cards the main action of each chapter. If it doesn’t, then you know-that chapter is unnecessary and can be cut. If you take away a pearl (event or chapter) the novel should fall apart. You don’t have to have physical chapters if you don’t want to, so long as you get the idea of key episodes that link up to form a narrative. ![]() Each chapter is a pearl, and the string of pearls is the novel. Each chapter is an event that drives the narrative forward to the next event in the next chapter. How should an author arrange these events? Chapters. ![]() Digression will weaken your plot and the reader may lose interest. Plot is all the things that have happened in a place or to a person, or to people over a certain period of time. Often there will be, as childhood is full of clues. You need only go back and visit the character’s childhood in the book if there is some vital clue to something that is happening in the present. ![]() A novel is about a very specific time in history or in the history of a character. For example, a character’s life in its entirety, from birth to death, doesn’t matter. For an author’s first book, I would suggest adhering to a basic plot structure, then deviating where and if it feels right. ![]()
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