Thread: Lots of short chapters, yes or no?
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Old 05-17-2017, 04:39 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I've ben reading Robert B. Parker's Spenser series and he uses short chapters. Not James Patterson short but like 3-10 ADE pages.
Applying the same guestimate system that I did for Patterson, Parker's "Promised Land" is 228 Kindle pages with 29 chapters. So that's:

7.8 pages per chapter
2700 words per chapter

So my earlier 6-8 pages guess for "short" (as opposed to "very short") isn't too far off. Just checking
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