CLOAK GAMES and time in fiction

A minor bit of trivia today – I was working on laying out the print version of CLOAK GAMES: REBEL FIST this morning, and I noticed that the entire book has only 3 scene breaks.

Which makes sense, because all but the last scene of the book takes place over a single day (a very bad day for Nadia), and it’s entirely from the perspective of Nadia.

It’s interesting to think about the flexibility of the novel as a storytelling form – it can cover a single day, or thousands of years.

No matter the length of the span of time, the trick, as ever, is to skip the boring parts. People skip those anyway, so it’s more efficient just not to write them.

-JM