There was some little inconsistencies in the lengths of chapters, especially kind of in the last book…
Oh, you’re talking about the several hundred page chapter, and then the five page chapter?
…was that sort of picked to try to break up things specifically, or was that more in how it fell out?
The chapter lengths, in this book in particular, were very consciously chosen. Under Harriet’s direction, through the first two books Harriet came to me a lot and said “No, this chapter needs to be these viewpoints, and this chapter needs to be those viewpoints”, and she actually taught me, I don’t know if she realized that she was doing it, and then in the last book, she didn’t have to do any of that. There was no changing of viewpoints between chapters. (Meaning via revision) Harriet had trained me better in chapter breaks and things like that, so I broke up the chapters. (To Harriet) I don’t know if you even noticed that, in the previous two you did a lot of that, and this one you didn’t.
The very long chapter, a very, very long chapter, you can see it in the Table of Contents, the purpose of that is, I wanted you to feel like the characters do in that chapter. They can’t put down their weapons and go to sleep. I don’t want you to be able to put down the book and go to sleep. I want you to hit that chapter at 1AM, and be like “I gotta to be at work at seven, and I’ll read just one more chapter”. One of the things Harriet unconsciously showed me that I picked up on, was the use of chapters for that kind of narrative structure in a better way, so that was done very intentionally.
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