Happy New Year!
I’m wondering if I really need chapter breaks. But I like making the headers and footers, so I’ll keep doing them. I can always take them off for the print version.
Anyway, things are heating up here. Literally. By the end of chapter two we should be out of the arctic and I won’t have to draw any more snowscapes. For now, though, Jacob has a few problems to deal with in the snow.
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Jacob: Crevasses are open to the air. Best if I do it in the ocean. Get to town, find a pier and drive off it... No, someone might try a rescue. I'll commandeer a boat. Head for the deep ocean. The genocide case will weigh me down. I can just ride it to the sea floor. Nobody gets hurt. This snowmobile almost drives itself. All I have to do it make sure I don't hit anyth--
Even if the action is contiguous between chapters, I find that marking the change helps signal the transition to a new arc, which may or may not be apparent to the reader. For example, if you hadn’t marked the chapter change here, I might assume that some sort of suicide-rescue plan was in the works (and I’d wonder how they’d put it together so fast), continuing the scene from the previous page. Now, I see this as distinct from the previous page, with much more sinister overtones. This isn’t about rescue – it’s about revenge, or some other agenda.
Gasp, Snow-bandits! Though you do have to wonder how this seems like a good idea to… anyone really.
Whoo! Let’s kill the guy with the Apocalypse causing briefcase that has a dead man switch! Wait…who’s bright idea was this?