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Originally Posted by theducks
I was not saying to drop the names, just that they are not as important as the numbers in this case.
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I did realise that, and I would not drop them, but when the names are repeated as they would be in my current plans (as shown on a previous post) they don't actually add anything all that useful. If reader thinks: "I remember I was up to a chapter called Ruth", they will find 20+ chapters with that character name.
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
What's short? Under 3,000 words? 2,500?
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Since several of us have commented about James Patterson, I'll use him as an example. Kindle reports "When the Wind Blows" as 419 pages (my paperback edition is 468 pages). It has 127 chapters.
If we accept 350 words per page as an acceptable average, and use the Kindle page count that gives us:
3.3 pages per chapter
1155 words per chapter
In this thread we are seeing fairly universal acceptance that Patterson's books are examples of very short chapters. Take the "very" intensifier into account and I suggest an average under 6 or 8 pages (2000 or 2500 words) constitutes short chapters.