InvidiaRed

Happy New Year, JayDee  

That’s what Oblivate  or Confundus is for.
 

Thank you, baby, and hope your Christmas is the beginning of wonderful times for you and all the family!   

Right back atcha, WD!

He moaned as the dentist probed his hole.
“Fill my cavity, Doc! I need filling!”

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!

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.

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.  

From experience, I know 100K+ is too long IMO.
Anymore, I’ll establish a cadence for a story, a couple of marks for “short” and “long” and try to keep to them, however, I won’t fret if I go a bit over the lines either way.  If it’s way too short, I’ll combine chapters; too long, and I’m looking to split.  On occasion, though, I’ll let a chapter stray outside those marks with good justification.  (My typical story will typically aim for 5 → 7k or so, however, I’ve done stories where they’ve been at 2k too.)
 

I slapped a link to it in the great wall of, @InvidiaRed! It’s through ninestar Press rn. I believe its going to be on amazon, etc also once the release date hits? Maybe?

Is there any particular site or place where we could look for it?

Is there any particular site or place where we could look for it?

<3 congrats <3

<3 congrats <3

Had to do it early since I’m pulling a double on thanksgiving.

Good… good… let the festivity flow through you...

Welcome:D
Covid… financially screwed me but otherwise everybody is mostly okay.

Sorry to hear that Invidia… I hope you can start to recover from it.

Welcome:D
Covid… financially screwed me but otherwise everybody is mostly okay.

Welcome:D
Covid… financially screwed me but otherwise everybody is mostly okay.

@DemonGoddess

Ok, so after a suggestion from JayDee, and checking what the word count of the resulting chapters would be...I think I may split WitS Chapter 11 into 11 and 12.  JayDee pointed out a natural spot to make the split, and each resulting chapter would be a little over 10,000 words long.  There is, simply put, a lot that happens here, and splitting it one last time might allow for readers not to become numb to the action.

<3 Rationis has just two updates left.

Have read it.
No spoilers, but FUCKING AWESOME.