How short can a chapter be?
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How short can a chapter be?
At the shorter end, short can be very short. I’ve quite often written chapters that are 500 words or so. (That’s a page and a half or so of an ordinary paperback.) If you want to go to 300 words or even less, you can.
Can a chapter be 2 pages long?
I read it in college in the ’90s and have remembered that chapter ever since. There is no such thing as too short. A chapter should be no longer than is necessary to tell the story within it. Think of chapters as stories within stories.
Can chapters be 1000 words?
The average chapter length for most authors is usually between 1,000-1,500 words. Some people even go further than that and publish 2,000-2,500+ word chapters depending on what their goals are.
How many words should be in a chapter?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has an average of 4,560 words per chapter.
What is the length of a typical chapter?
Or it can be 5000 words. Again, like novel length, chapter length is dictated by what is happening in the story, not by the law of averages and applied mathematics. Many books have 40, 50 or sometimes 60 chapters, all varying in length.
What is the average number of words per chapter?
Some will tell you 2,500 words is the average, while others will say that 3,000 to 5,000 word chapters are more likely to be the norm. Most agree that under 1,000 words would be rather short and that over 5,000 might be rather too long. As a general guideline, chapters should be between 3,000 to 5,000 words.
How many pages are usually in a chapter?
The typical range is 35-65 pages for a chapter book, 45-90 for a low-middle-grade, 90-120 for a middle-grade, 150-200 for a young, young adult, but these are just averages. Some publishers have series of books with a maximum of pages.