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.
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PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoReally? I’ve read almost all of them twice and I wouldn’t have been able to tell you that lol
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
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.