So is anybody

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5. A braided novel is a multiple-viewpoint novel that follows the separate-but-related story lines

of three or more primary viewpoint characters, with equal emphasis on each storyline and scenes from each storyline intermingled. It is character driven rather than plot driven.

I especially like Cristina Garcia's The lady Matador's Hotel or David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

I especially like the Lady Matador's Hotel, becaus these main characters are all the same hotel for the same week, and their story lines cross, like a braid but the real structure is how they react in the world they inhabit. Garcia's novel is only 57,000 words, so I could write a similar novel at a pace of 1800 words a day.

Cloud Atlas is now a Movie on my must see list. The braid in the novel is discovering how these different characters in different era's are related.