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Bonus Ep. 3, Part 2: The Author-Reader Contract

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Changing Chapter Titles Can Really Be Earned

When you establish a pattern, you got to have good justification to vary that pattern. If all your chapter titles are word cole an, three other words, and then get to the chapter where the title is one word, o, a, it really stands out. And when you then vary it, that has a lot of impact. That chapter has to be legitdifferent. It has to break the contract to a purpose. Ah, what the purpose is can vary. But you never want to break a pattern that you've established for no reason because the reader will be like, it'll rub itl it'll cause iction. I don't know if you have any su i wanted

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