Chapter length/number of chapters?
Hi ^^
I'm currently writing quite a few stories, aka tales. They vary greatly in length, from the length of the chapters to the number of chapters. I don't know what a good length for the chapters would be, or even how many chapters I should write.
Although it is mainly 500-1500 words and sometimes it varies between 10 and 30 chapters in each book
Let's take my book "One Day We'll Meet Again" as an example. It has only nine chapters, each about 500 words long. If I were to hold it in my hand, it would be the thinnest book I've ever owned. And that just annoys me.
My other story, "Will We Make It Out Alive Together?", is much longer. The chapters are about 600-800 words. And there will probably be around 30 chapters. So, it would be a slightly thicker book if I were holding it in one hand.
I know that every book is different, both in terms of the number of chapters and their length. But I'd like to write stories where both remain constant.
Could someone please tell me what a good length for a story would be? How many chapters should a story have? And how long should they be?
Thank you in advance for your answers and also for reading everything I have written here
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It depends on what you write the story. For a book that would be far too few words, even for a short chapter.
With the number of words I would come to, if I raised it to several chapters, your stories are rather short stories, so definitely no novels. No matter how long the words may be.
If you publish the story for yourself on a free website, a total of shorter chapters are good because many readers read it on the go. It is estimated that 1500 words are minimum. Shorter chapters can usually not be read so beautifully, because the content or even the thoughts are described with a high probability very limited.
There can also be many chapters.
I actually find a 2000 word length quite appropriate, but of course this does not apply to every chapter and not to any genre, as it still needs to be adapted to the content. It doesn’t matter if you just want to create the 2000 words on cramp.
A normal youth novel has about 80,000 words, normal novels that are not unusually long, about 140000 words.
Romans usually have fewer chapters, which of course comes to the length of the chapters and the genre. Much more than 25 chapters are usually not produced.
As I said, as it sounds, your stories are rather short stories. In such short stories I find the division into chapters almost unnecessary.
Text lengths are measured in standard pages (a fully described page DIN A4 paper with side edges and font size acc. DIN 5008), not with the number of words; The latter vary too much in length to achieve uniform results.
How long a chapter should always be depends on the author’s feeling and is also dependent on the type of text. For example, chapters in a specialist book are longer than in a textbook and chapter of a textbook in a fictional work such as a novel.
If we start from an average novel, a chapter should usually be between ten and twenty standard pages be long.
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