...was technically yesterday. I'm not posting a word count yet, because I did some writing last night after I got home and I don't know where I was at the end of the day. I'll just update tonight.
I have a dilemma though. How the hell long should chapters be? I can't gauge how many pages something will be by looking at a computer screen. I'm kind of making new chapters where I feel like it, and they're all over the place with length. And I never know whether I should make a new chapter or just hit enter a few times and make a different scene within the same chapter.
I suppose it's silly to even think about it at this point, but the less I have to be redoing stuff down the road, the better. I also know no one who reads this is likely to have a clue, but I was starting to write for the day and it was bugging me.
And now I'm off to write. Word count wise I'm still ahead of where I need to be for the next day or so, but I'm trying to get ahead. Still aiming for 25k but not sure that will happen. I have a purse party later, Madagascar 2, a haircut, and the Steeler game tomorrow. But we'll see how it goes! 20k at the very least should be feasible.
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Ok so chapter wise, perhaps 15-25 pages I duno, tbh usually when theres a major change or to make you want to read more is a good idea for change of chapter
Theres let say 27 pages a chapter in an average book and thats kinda keeping them to an interesting point.
Usually I like books that have about middling chapter lengths so that I can read a chapter and then sleep, I hate stopping in the middle of a chapter.
If that helps at all?
And hope you have fun this evening^_^
27 pages a chapter is pretty long. I prefer around 20 personally.
It's not a matter of how long I want the chapters to be. It's that I don't really know how many words equals one printed page in a book. How many pages would 3000 or 6000 words or whatever actually BE if it were printed?
I have the numbers down somewhere but it's something like 300-600 words depending on how much is dialogue. So it's really hard to actually judge. XD
I think with usual novel measurements, chapters are usually a few thousand words long. So 15 chapters @ 4k words = 60k word story.
I dunno if there is any kind of writing standard though.
Chapter length should be judged by the story, not some kind of standard, imo, if there even is one lol.
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