October 7th, 2020 at 6:38AM
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absolutelypositutely asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman! I've been working my way through the Discworld books and I was wondering if you, as one of Terry Pratchett's friends and collaborators, would happen to know why his books aren't separated into chapters?

Because he couldn’t see the point of chapters, except for reading to children at night. Adults have bookmarks, he’d explain. And because when he wrote, the process was organic and he’d assemble it all into a book at the end, so not bothering with chapters made it easier to move chunks around, cut plot threads out, and view the whole thing as a whole.

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