Wolf

I think I’ve figured out an interesting little structure for this novel. Since the series is made up of a lot of bitesized chapters, I’m going to play with that a bit here. It starts with these same kind of short, punchy chapters, but I think I’m going to make the meat of this novel into one big scene stretching and rolling like a river across the landscape.

This may be a bit too tricky of me. Too slippery and playful, but I think that’s part of what makes this series fun.

And that is what I keep coming back to with this novel.

I want it to be fun. I want people to keep getting what they liked from the first three, though I also want to offer new surprises and thrills, so I’m going to lean into the Howl of it all. Don’t want to lose track of any of this.

But I do want to try something a bit different and offer a new kind of fun. A texture. A feeling to the reading experience. Like, can I get away with making half of this book one chapter? Will people freak out about a 100 page chapter, when the average chapter length before that is, like, 3 pages?

Is this something that matters to anyone but me? People will notice, of course, but is this something that anyone will care about? Will they read this long chapter and think it’s cool or will they just be kind of annoyed?

Who can say!

I often worry that I’m doing too much to please myself and not enough to please the reader, but this series has always been my most audience-forward writing so I want to keep giving you that. But I also just want to play around. Muck about, cause some trouble.

We’ll see how it goes.