[Magdalen] The Crows

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Sun Mar 1 21:04:24 UTC 2015


It depends on the nature of the work.  Some may be essentially a single 
narrative.  Others may onclude different perspectives or distinct 
phases, perhaps separated by a paeriod of time and/or location, where 
the chapters help distinguish the various portions of the work.

Roger

------ Original Message ------
From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: 01/03/2015 20:49:28
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The Crows

>Oh? Well, I never even considered this! I just assumed the author 
>decided this. I've heard writers refer to having written a certain 
>number of chapters...
>Maybe that's just dissertations, though.
>
>>  On Mar 1, 2015, at 12:45 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Aren't chapters editorially-imposed? I have friends who write, both
>>  fiction & nonfiction, and few of them create their own chapters.
>>
>>  I'll ask around.
>>  -M
>>
>>>  On Friday, February 27, 2015, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> 
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>  It's funny that I never heard it--maybe it was a regional thing. I 
>>>always
>>>  assumed books had chapters unless they were those books for really 
>>>little
>>>  kids. Never heard them described that way.
>>>
>>>



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