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11741350 No.11741350 [Reply] [Original]

> Be writing
>Hit a point where I think the chapter should end
>Check page count
>3 pages
This is really fucking with me. Most of the books I read have chapters with page counts in the teens or twenties at least.

>> No.11741359

>>11741350
Nah, different authors different styles. Some very good authors have very short chapters. Keep up the writing . Just the fact that you're putting in actual work puts you above 99% of this board. I'm sure some of your chapters will be longer than others, and a lot of the work is going to come in during editing. You'll change things, make some chapters longer, cut out content from others etc.

>> No.11741371

>>11741350
chapter length only matters when you're not properly structuring the chapters. if you're not doing this, then you can possibly have a one page chapter

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>>11741350
Double space
Increase font size

>> No.11741843

Chapters really don't matter that much.
>>11741359
This. Tolstoy has very short chapters. Terry Pratchett doesn't have them at all

>> No.11741999

>>11741350
You can always combine similar chapters while editing. If you're writing a hueg novel then short chapters might be nice, anyway.