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17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines

Writing Excuses

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Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Rui Saphon

Shadow of the wind by carlos rui saphon is about a little boy who falls in love with a book. But all other copies of every other book have been destroyed. So it's this mystery about, ah, you know, who destroyed those books? Where is the author? What happened? And so as the boy goes on this investigation, rather than just having big info dumps of what he finds out at every stage of his investigation, we end up jumping back and forth between time lines.

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