• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s a book with chapters. Basically a regular ass book. When kids are real little, their books are like 15 pages long. Then in like 1st or 2nd grade, they move onto reading big kid books - aka “chapter books” that have enough pages to warrant chapters.

    You never hear someone over the age of 7 or 8 mention reading “chapter books” because they’re just know as books.

    Except anon, who is dumb as fuck.

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      Anon could be a kid. On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. Actually, a lot of content on 4chan looks like a giggling 8 year old posted it; especially the posts about poop.

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      There are regular books that don’t have any chapters. Most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books are an example of this.

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        That threw me when I started Guards! Guards!. I generally only have time to read at night and stop at the first chapter break after 11:00. For several nights in a row I was reading until midnight, giving up, then forgetting by the next time. Eventually I checked ahead and realized there weren’t any, but a lot of his ‘sections’ are chapter sized, so it works out.

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          Terry does include breaks and beats in the stories that many other authors would adorn as a new chapter, but he never does. honestly imo that makes things almost filmic - for example where a switch in perspective usually prompts a new chapter and pushes an author to make it longer, Terry can just write a single page or even a few paragraphs to tease you a bit of what’s going on elsewhere in the story, and then go back to the usual perspective but now with the added context & tension

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            that makes things almost filmic

            His early books literally started with a visual description of the reader’s imagination “camera” gradually focusing on Great A’Tuin, the Disc, whatever region the action was going to happen in, and so on.

            Filmic is exactly what he was going for.

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          There are divisions in the text that other authors might have broken into chapters. He is actually incredibly clever with those divisions, building sections longer or shorter to control the speed of the story.