I don't read a lot of comics, mostly because I have a deep resentment about spending that much money on something I'll be finished reading in about 5 minutes flat, so I can't talk intelligently about narrative structure in them. But it's interesting that you associate the multi-POV scene-changing chapters with a visual medium, because I think I encountered it in prose a lot more often than the ASOIAF type.
I outlined my epic WIP like a TV show, mid-season cliffhangers and all, when I was massively stuck and beating the structure with sticks to make things fall out and line up. It worked... but now I have a visual outline for a prose structure and occasionally I hit these 'shit how do I' moments. A montage would be really helpful, actually... or a nice long shot panning along as one tiny set of skirmishers goes right through a great big army (by accident! really!) with, er, predictable results.
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Date: 2014-03-18 08:56 pm (UTC)I outlined my epic WIP like a TV show, mid-season cliffhangers and all, when I was massively stuck and beating the structure with sticks to make things fall out and line up. It worked... but now I have a visual outline for a prose structure and occasionally I hit these 'shit how do I' moments. A montage would be really helpful, actually... or a nice long shot panning along as one tiny set of skirmishers goes right through a great big army (by accident! really!) with, er, predictable results.