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artemisdartSymmetry is important to me. I was alternating POVs between my two main leads for 7 chapters, and then I threw in a third POV in chapter 8.
Then I was busily writing away, and realized I could repeat the pattern -- alternating POVs between my two mains for the next 7 chapters, and then returning to the third POV in chapter 16.
Unfortunately, after that, the pattern breaks. I won't have 8 more chapters in me after this main arc completes. BUT, I can halve it -- maybe 4 more alternating between the main leads, and a fifth one at the end just to wrap things up in a bow.
That would be a total of 21 chapters... not quite perfect, as it would have been if I'd done 6+1 / 6+1 / 6+1, but this is where the story beats are falling. Not everything is perfectly symmetrical. As long as there is some internally consistent structure / order, that will satisfy my urge for balance.
Then I was busily writing away, and realized I could repeat the pattern -- alternating POVs between my two mains for the next 7 chapters, and then returning to the third POV in chapter 16.
Unfortunately, after that, the pattern breaks. I won't have 8 more chapters in me after this main arc completes. BUT, I can halve it -- maybe 4 more alternating between the main leads, and a fifth one at the end just to wrap things up in a bow.
That would be a total of 21 chapters... not quite perfect, as it would have been if I'd done 6+1 / 6+1 / 6+1, but this is where the story beats are falling. Not everything is perfectly symmetrical. As long as there is some internally consistent structure / order, that will satisfy my urge for balance.
