#joan brull

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Dream painted by Joan Brull (1863 - 1912)

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Writing Notes: Chapters

Chapters are essential because they help you control the pace in which your story is experienced.

But remember that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to writing chapters. Follow your gut to decide when to start and stop each chapter.

What to Include in Each Chapter

Think of a chapter as a mini-story.

Of course, none of the chapters in your book can stand alone because they’re connected in one large arch.

However, a chapter usually has at least one scene (and sometimes several, related scenes), and each scene contains a beginning, middle, and end.

So, in this way, a chapter has a mini-arc.

Chapters are like unresolved mini-stories that are interconnected.

To find out what happens, the reader must read them all.

Because every chapter in your book should have at least one scene, each chapter should have at least the following:

A setting

Character(s)

Motivations (external and internal)

Conflict

Cause and effect (or action and reaction)

Source ⚜ More: Chapter Outline ⚜ Chapter Endings Writing References: Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding

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Nimfes by Joan Brull i Vinyoles (1904)

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Early flowers painted by Joan Brull (1863 - 1912)

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Joan Brull - Crepuscle (ca. 1899)

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Joan Brull, II Sogno 1898 (detail)

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Dream

Joan Brull

oil on canvas, ca. 1905

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Somni (1905) by Joan Brull Vinyoles (1863-1912)

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Joan Brull - Flors primerenques

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(Juan) Joan Brull [Guillaume Gris]

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“And so it is that most people have no idea how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. The grown-ups, going about their business and worries, and tormenting themselves with all kinds of details, gradually lose the perspective for these riches that children, when they are attentive and good, soon notice and love with their whole heart.

And yet the greatest beauty would be achieved if everyone remained in this regard always like attentive and good children, simple and pious in sensitivities, and if people did not lose the capacity for taking pleasure as intensely in a birch leaf or a peacock’s feather or the wing of a hooded crow as in a mighty mountain or a splendid palace.

What is small is not small in itself, just as that which is great is not—great. A great and eternal beauty passes through the whole world, and it is distributed fairly over that which is small and that which is large; for in such important and essential matters, no injustice is to be found on earth.”​

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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Crepuscle, per Joan Brull. Oli en tela, 54 x 81 cm; entre 1895 i 1911.

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Study for the Viatic painted by Joan Brull (1863 - 1912)

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Writing Checklist: “Does Your Novel Have Enough Tension?”

Is there internal conflict with the protagonist?

Is there external conflict with the protagonist and an outside force?

Is there something left “unsaid” between the characters in a scene?

Do the characters in each scene have well-defined motivations that the reader knows?

Does the reader know what is at stake for every main character in the scene?

Is something preventing the protagonist from succeeding?

Does the reader know more than the protagonist?

Is there a sense of anticipation in every scene?

Does anticipation build throughout the story, leading to the climax?

Source ⚜ Writing Notes: Conflict ⚜ What's at Stake

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Duo - Joan Brull i Vinyoles

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Ophelia painted by Joan Brull (1863 - 1912)

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Joan Brull - El Pessebre (ca. 1896)