Laurence
Inkling
I know that typically chapters are shorter at the start and end of books and that there are various chapter length techniques to control pacing. In general though, do you tend to enjoy books with short or longer chapters?
My current trilogy outline is currently broken up in to ~15 chapters per book. For the length I want (3 x The Hobbit?) I plan to put 7k+ words into each chapter. Do you think much more than this would send you to sleep?
I don't particularly buy in to the whole plan-where-your-reader-can-go-to-sleep thing. I think reader's available reading time differs too much for that to matter.
A screenshot from Analyzing Chapter Lengths in Fantasy Fiction.
My current trilogy outline is currently broken up in to ~15 chapters per book. For the length I want (3 x The Hobbit?) I plan to put 7k+ words into each chapter. Do you think much more than this would send you to sleep?
I don't particularly buy in to the whole plan-where-your-reader-can-go-to-sleep thing. I think reader's available reading time differs too much for that to matter.
A screenshot from Analyzing Chapter Lengths in Fantasy Fiction.