There’s admittedly not a lot to this chapter. It’s small.
There’s the communication between Mary and Jack which runs parallel to Jake and Liz’s blossoming romance.
In the learning process of writing the novel, I had to learn how to weave multiple threads of smaller stories through the central story. It was a fun endeavor.
I look at chapters like this as a way to encapsulate smaller segments. Filler, if you will. They help move the story. In reading authors like Don Winslow, who had chapters that were literally THREE LINES, I realized as long as you can move the story in a way that works inside of my own style and voice, then that is definitely the way to go.
Establish your own voice. Write your way. There’s a million ways to tell a story.
But the best way? Is in your own voice.
I love that challenge of writing novels as well. Weaving together storylines, having the characters intersect in interesting ways