By trying to produce chapters of roughly equivalent lengths, Langton had to unmoor himself from a traditional understanding of scenic units.
Meehl assessed results produced by 16 computer-modeling teams using 23 different models in producing the chapter of The Physical Science Basis on climate projections.
I immediately sat down to write a novel and produced one chapter, which was, of course, a slightly modified version of "A Wrinkle in Time".
In Celsius 7/7, published the next year, he likened fighting Islamism to fighting the Nazis, defended America's bloody operation in the Iraqi city of Falluja and produced a chapter on Israel which, the Telegraph noted, "could have been dictated by that country's ministry of information".
Despite a sepsis attack that hospitalized him, an emotional retirement ceremony attended by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey and a dangerous surgery, he produced a chapter per week.
I never wanted to let my readers down by making them wait too long or by producing sloppy chapters, so it encouraged me to work harder so that it was worth it for them.
This requires me to produce a short chapter – eleven hundred words – every day for the six months for which the serial runs.
None of it helps when you find yourself back at the beginning, confronted with your own unredeemable prose, convinced, as Jennifer Egan was not so long ago, that you'll never produce a decent chapter again.
The changes announced today by Mr. Ashcroft are certain to produce a new chapter in the debate over whether the nation's security agencies are updating antiquated policies to combat terrorism or simply taking advantage of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath to obtain new powers.
Biaxial stretched films are used extensively for the packaging of fresh-cut produce and this chapter discusses the principles underlying proper package design.
