Y’all ever get the book sweats? Like when you’re hyperfocused on a really good book and you read it all in one sitting and you finish it and you look up and you’re like five thousand degrees and flushed and sweating through your shirt and yeah…the book sweats? Just me?
Let Me Further Break Your Heart - Gideon the Ninth Structure Analysis
Some Gideon the Ninth analysis by way of writing analysis, just for fun. No spoilers for Harrow the Ninth or Nona; for current purposes Im essentially treating Gideon as a stand-alone. Spoilers all the way through for Gideon the Ninth though. This is your enormous spoiler warning.
Intro:
Im slowly slowly getting back into writing after being very into it for a long time which was followed by a long break in which I was too disabled/tired/brain-fogged to write. So Im poking back around Writing Excuses and Im reminded of this* concept of (I think) Mary Robinette Kowal’s, that treats pacing a lot like programming.
The concept being, when you end a conflict, the timing of that resolution has to match the timing of when you introduced it. The example they use is an A-plot B-plot detective romance.
