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Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 17, 2014 • 10:09 am
by Fred Buer
Prtmn2gate.

Just typing that made the juices in my brain seethe slightly, actually.

-Fred

Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 18, 2014 • 11:15 am
by dcat151
I enjoyed the new novel. However, I'm not a huge fan of short chapters. It seems a little ADD to me. Just as soon as I get into a chapter it is coming to a close. It's not a big deal, and the book is still great, but the shorter chapters just aren't quite my cup of tea.

Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 18, 2014 • 12:35 pm
by Chandler
At one time a chapter reflected a section of the story, like a TV episode; not an end to the book of course, but a beginning and end to that section of the story.

Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 18, 2014 • 5:14 pm
by Matthew Buckstein
Fred Buer wrote:Abbreviations are bad enough. But I have a major, psychotic freakin' HATRED for portmanteaus. That, and the way every minor scandal gets the "-gate" suffix.

-Fred
Ugh. -gates are annoying. I wonder how many children and teens these days think Watergate was a scandal about water...

I find shorter chapters useful when I have only a short amount of time to read. I never like breaking in the middle of a "section". In-chapter breaks are good to help this, though. That said 10-11 pages in the size font of the original Tex novels isn't overly long. I'd say that's a nice length.

Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 24, 2014 • 8:44 pm
by silvermitt
These comments are a riot!

Yes, people with a long attention span are becoming rarer, and furthermore --squirrel!-- um... eh, what was I talking about?

Re: UPDATE ON NOVELS

Posted: June 30, 2014 • 5:58 pm
by Chandler
squirrel???? where???? pant, pant, pant :lol: