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There Are No Such Things as Chapters

AFTER completing my MFA coursework I took a year off from my program to revise (again) the manuscript that would become my thesis. Rereading my latest draft with fresh eyes, away from the influence of the workshop, I realized I had arbitrarily broken the story into fifteen-to twenty-page chunks. Why had I done this? Fifteen to twenty pages is a useful length to give a workshop—too few pages and the critique gets bogged down in details, but too many and the work isn’t given a close read. Workshop had trained me to think in certain lengths. At first I could tell that the pacing was inconsistent and everything seemed to carry the same weight, but I couldn’t figure out why. I had several model books I would turn to when…
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