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That's quite interesting. In the Red Rising series (a somewhat pulpy future dystopian story) chapter length is used in an entertaining way in one of the books.
by renewiltord 2y ago
That's quite interesting. In the Red Rising series (a somewhat pulpy future dystopian story) chapter length is used in an entertaining way in one of the books. This is one of those POV character series, and one chapter has a long description of one character's struggles to get to a certain place so that they can ambush another, the resulting ambush, a somewhat detailed description of how he struggles to keep his life, and how that relates to the rest of his objectives. The next chapter is one paragraph from the protagonist of the series - an ubermensch-type fellow that is a journal log or something that goes "Encountered light resistance at $ambush_site". Pretty successful show don't tell there of the skill/strength disparity. The next chapter goes to a different POV. I enjoyed that clever trick with the chapter lengths.