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Reminder please take mental health seriously this holiday season <3 Its been one crazy year and 2021 is around the corner <3
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Writer question.
Has anyone gotten a little anxious about chapter length? Is it too long or not long enough?
How do you know when its the perfect length?
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This is one of those questions that plague writers everywhere. Readers struggle with it as well.
There is a school of thought that chapters work at anywhere from 3-5k words per chapter. Any longer, and it’s hard to find a stopping point, since most readers don’t have the luxury of reading a book through in one sitting. Any shorter, and you hit the same problem people have with flash fiction in general: how do you convey sufficient information to hold the reader’s attention and make them want to read the next chapter?
Personally, I like 4-5k words per chapter. That’s my comfort level as a writer. As a reader, as long as you hold my attention, I’ll keep reading. I’ve stayed up half the night to finish a particularly engrossing book.
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As the faatus who assembled that 100k+ chapter way earlier, I thought it a point of pride at the the time when I had consolidated a whole bunch of smaller chapters into that mega chapter during a rewrite. However, with a lot more experience under my belt, I’ve since realized it’s “a wall of text”, and it sort of trivializes any particular scene in the chapter when it’s as about long as JKR’s entire third book (not to mention there was *no* separation between scenes so it was all kinda “squashed” together). An additional drawback to those writing 100k+ chapters on FF.net is that its word counter caps the per-chapter count to 65k for the story’s total word count.
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I never used to really think about it, but when I re-did a couple of my old stories I did split them into chapters rather than large massive oneshots. Seemed easier to read!
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Latest Addition to the Holiday Canon <3
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http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109446&chapter=26
Finally one of the hardest chapters is done
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Describing technical weapons is surprisingly complex when the characters are all technologically pre-Renaissance level. Lotr meeting scifi.
Sorta like Fire Emblem Three houses. Or Gate
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The level of rage when you’re writing in the zone and some fricking idiot on their phone smashes into a transformer and takes out the power of three blocks is just
Now the powers out and the groove is gone.
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Just a heads up if you got the the DLC for doom eternal. Yeah, It assumes you’ve leveled everything or you’re going to get obliterated. FYI
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Was almost done with Tricked and for whatever reason I can’t get Grand Inquisition out of my head.
haha, I guess I’ll finish that story.
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https://lingojam.com/FluffyTalkTranslator
I dont know what a fluffy is but this translator is funny.
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My second favorite scene.
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I adore Ivanova. She remains one of my all-time favorite characters, and I totally agree about the casting for Delenn.
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I liked Ivanova, but not the actress who played her. I heard her speak at a convention once, and she was really full of herself.
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