Am I cheating Retroactively patching up continuity errors Nah.Id already written these overlapping scenes, and they dont change what the other characters do, but I decided to pull them from The Blood Mirror and put them here instead.Why One of the challenges of writing an epic story over multiple volumes is balancing dramatic unities against one another.
Lev Grossman The Magician King Epub Series Tells OneThe Light-bringer series tells one huge, unified story, but my goal has been for each book to comprise its own story so that both journey and destination satisfy. Sometimes the desires of an individual novel yield to the demands of the whole seriessay, when big plot questions are raised in one volume but not answered until several books later. This series certainly doesnt need more complexity, and thus the vast majority of the scenes are presented in chronological order. But whats a writer to do when a character jumps the gun and gets into her book five problems while the other characters are still wrapping up their book four problems (In this case, Teia.) A strict chronological presentation would interrupt the other characters book four finales, and then, when book five came out, what Teia had done mere hours before would have to be reintroduced. Worse, that ordering would undercut our end-of-book satisfactionthat precious, fragile feeling that though this epic journey will continue, weve reached a logical base camp. Characters warming themselves around a fire and looking up at the mountain peak theyll attempt tomorrow Thats a good tease. Characters never stopping hiking and the book simply ending Thats bad structure. In another case here, a character off in the hinterlands has his most interesting scenes occur back-to-back in a single day, while everyone elses are spread over weeks. I love being in the Mighty, dont get me wrong, Big Leo was telling Ferkudi, but sometimes the bodyguard duty is too much for only five of us, dont you think The Blackguard always has at least a hundred warriors. And sure, they gotta guard more people than we Ferkudi sniffed. Big Leo stopped. He took his eyes off the chattering nobles for the first time all night and glanced at him. Like most things he did, Ferkudi sniffed different, huffing in his air in little triads, short, short, long. After his initial chilly reception by the Council of Divinesand a couple of hangings the nobles of Blood Forests cultural capital were trying to make nice. When Ferkudi said nothing, Big Leo took the sniff as agreement. He continued, I mean, no ones going to make a move on the citys big savior tonight, right It ever bother you no one seems to notice Lord Kip Guile didnt save the city all by himself Everything was fine, Leo thought. Lev Grossman The Magician King Epub How To Turn BreakerSure, there were some nerves as everyone was trying to figure out how to turn Breaker into an ally, but the noise of the crowd was right. Ferkudi sniffed. Dont tell me youre coming down with a cold, Leo said, not looking over this time. Ferkudi inhaled deeply, like a war-bound soldier carefully filling his mnemonic storehouses with the scent of his wifes hair.
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