How many chapters in a book?
by Wen Spencer
On the Forward Motion forum at www.
fmwriters.
com, a person asks:
Is few chapters better?
They go on to explain:
My novel (now in final edit) currently has 83 chapters even though I m only at
about 100,000...
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How many chapters in a book?
by Wen Spencer
On the Forward Motion forum at www.
fmwriters.
com, a person asks:
Is few chapters better?
They go on to explain:
My novel (now in final edit) currently has 83 chapters even though I m only at
about 100,000 words.
Many chapters are only a coupla pages long.
I think I could merge
them down to about 42 chapters total.
What are the advantages of fewer chapters?
I posted this reply to this question:
I believe that while there is nothing actually WRONG with lots and lots of short
chapters, I think that perhaps that you re confusing scene with chapter.
Scenes are one unit of action: a conversation, a fight, sex, an agrument.
A chapter is a set of scenes grouped together as a unit.
Just as its not a great idea to have a scene be all one-sentence paragraphs, or one
paragraph that runs for pages, it s also not really a great idea to have each scene be a
chapter.
Chapters are great tools for theme and pacing by how you group together various
sce
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