Wilde_Guess

In my case, as will become ‘visible’ once Chapters 36 and 37 get posted, it’s a matter of things not ‘shrinking,’ combined with a self-imposed goal of keeping individual chapters under 20,000 words.

In Chapter 36 now, the ‘kids’ are waking up the morning after their wedding reception concert and ‘talking out issues.’  Chapter 37 is where other family members come over to their house, with only some of those family members being expected or invited, to ‘talk out’ more family issues.  And this extended family does have its issues.

Oh, the potter fanfic’s doing anything but trimming… it’s 1.2M words and counting … though I *am* breaking up the 100k chapter of the previous draft.. though that chapter’s likely going to span a million words across over a hundred chapters by the time I’m finished.  (Not totally sure, haven’t fully plotted/planned out that split.

Jefferey’s a more recent creation, so less work, fewer problems to fix.  Still, some episodes are a bit big, and were better suited to split & padding in.  Also adding in more episodes & content as I go as the first pass really underdeveloped it.  (At least for its first act.)

Yes, I’ve had this experience quite a bit. Though more for my series of one shots. I was just going through the upcoming chapters of Scooby Gang Time and one chapter has 16 pages, whereas another one has 28 pages. Many times it goes back and forth like that between chapters.

I keep feeling like I should add more to the shorter chapters.