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Originally Posted by ekbell
Depending on the plot you could possibly bundle your chapters into parts or sections and use that to make the Table of Contents easier to navigate (I was reading the 2nd Alicia pov chapter in part 3 would be easier to remember then I was reading the 7th Alicia pov chapter)
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Yes, I do expect the story to be broken into parts - at least 4. ... Things are still a bit up in the air because of the way I write (I don't outline), and the story has taken some very different turns over its life so far - another one just tonight (it's gone 3am here, and I really should be sleeping, but still worked up from writing - it's a buzz when it's working!). That's partly why I don't outline, I like it when my characters surprise me.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Promised Land is 157 ADE pages and 29 chapters. It starts on page 4 meaning an average of 5.27 pages per chapter.
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Yes. I do understand my calculations are very approximate. Without access to actual word counts the 350 words per page is only a very rough guess. Still, for a first approximation I think it's probably close enough.
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
That makes sense. My average chapter length over three books is about 2,500 words. (2,800 2,100 2,800) If I'm under 2,000 it feels short and anything over 3,500 starts to feel long.
I like reading books with shorter chapters, or at least breaks in the chapters, so I feel comfortable starting "one more" before meeting some obligation.
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I am inclined to agree that it may be better to err on the side of short rather than long, but when I could see myself hitting several 1-3 page chapters I started to wonder if it might not be good to go too short. This thread has been quite reassuring on that front.