Kree of Canopy Chapter Four
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In Chapter Four (the most illogical chapter of any book I’ve ever read), Kree travels across the entire country in a day somehow and ends up in a forest town called Canopy where she takes part in an absurd trial to determine if she is a spy or not. I talk about time and space in fiction, introducing magic systems, and using imagery and sentence length to evoke a specific tone.
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