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I've typed up the first 'chapter' of "All the Rules Rearranged", and it comes to almost 7,000 words; I've decided to split it as I'd originally planned before discovering that all the following chapters were going to be equally lengthy! This means that I effectively have a nine-chapter story on my hands instead of a five-chapter story, i.e. longer than "The Choices of Raoul" -- which is slightly worrying, since I'm not sure quite where the extra verbiage has gone: the entire plot takes place in less than 24 hours and only a couple of significant events actually happen, one of which we've already had in the course of the first chapter[s]. Multiple narrators means multiple backstories, and I suspect that may be the answer...

It also means that I need extra chapter titles, of course. I've gone provisionally for "What is to be Done?" (Что делать, Shto Delat': Chernyshevsky's socialist idealist novel) and "Crime and Punishment" (Преступлéние и наказáние, Dostoyevsky) for this first split chapter of Christine's, with the idea of saving "Fathers and Sons" for later!


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