Typical Writing Advice You Are Allowed To Ignore
As my bio explains, I am a storyteller not a formulaic writer. I don’t create some construct following industry-prescribed structures and fill in the empty spaces with content. My chapters aren’t perfectly sized to fit some mold, my scene breaks will probably upset the uber-literary. This deviation from the “norm” extends through every facet of my work. The characters, conversations, descriptive text, all of it. Why? Because I care more about the story than I do the craft. I write what feels right; what flows best as I tell my tale. Scene breaks are used to provide breathers for my audience, or shift point of view. Chapters are used to provide an overall tone for a collection of scenes, as they pertain to the main “thread”. I will never be the author that can tell you exactly how long my chapters are, especially in advance. I’m okay with this. I don’t write by chapters, I simply don’t think that way. When I attempted to write that way back in 2010, I failed miserably. I got so lost in ...