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Charting Hallmarked Man as Ring Composition: An Introduction and Invitation
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- Nov 8, 2025
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Summary
When Running Grave was published, John Granger charted each Part’s chapter sets, the Book-as-a-Whole, and then the Book as the concluding novel of a seven book series . It took him weeks and weeks, it yielded astonishing revelations via Rowling-Galbraith’s structural artistry, and… it was a rather joyless affair. No one joined him in the process to verify or discount via a separate but simultaneous reading what he found, no one learned how to do it while looking over his shoulder, and very few appreciated what it was all about. Fast forward to September 2025 and the publication of Hallmarked Man . Nick Jeffery and John had collaborated in a month-long Lake-and-Shed reading marathon of everything Rowling had written as well as the Golden Threads running through all her work. They were looking for a new Special Project they could offer the growing list of Paid Subscribers in addition to the weekly conversations and articles they posted for all comers. Why not do a series of posts only the most Serious Strikers would be interested in, a full-on charting of Strike 8? John has posted three Ring Composition throat-clearing exercises complete with video and transcripts — the Heart of Ring Composition , the Mechanics and Mystery of Ring Composition , and a Case Study in Reading a Strike Novel Ring ( Career of Evil ) — to warm up the niche audience for this adventure. In the conversation above, Nick and John lay out their hopes for this series, namely, that participants will leave with: * an adamantine grasp of what charting a book involves (chapter notes, latch, turn, and t-back lines with explanations); * a clockworks understanding of Strike 8 ‘structural artistry, * charts they’ve drawn of the Parts’ chapter sets as well as the Whole Book; and, most important, * a Ring Readi…