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I put a paragraph break in your question as an edit, but it's still a huge block of text (now two huge blocks). Chapter dividers are a grander version of that. They give your reader a chance to...
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2019-12-20T00:40:47Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T12:27:37Z (over 4 years ago)
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I put a paragraph break in your question as an edit, but it's still a huge block of text (now two huge blocks). Chapter dividers are a grander version of that. They give your reader a chance to catch her/his breath. Don't make it hard for them to take a break. A lot of people like to stop at the end of a chapter. Some books don't have any chapters at all. But a lot of people will choose not to read them for that reason. So what's a reasonable range? Well it varies a lot. One [comparison of well-known novels](https://blog.reedsy.com/how-long-should-a-chapter-be/) has a range from 942 words to 7226. But...the 7226 (_One Hundred Years of Solitude_) is an outlier (and written in a language with a lot more use of articles than English). The next closest example is 6023 words, 3rd is 5294 words. The ones with the shortest chapters are young-adult/middle-grade or unusual formats. ## The basic range seems to be 2000-5000 words for adult novels. Sure, you can go over or under this as you wish. But I would break up your first chapter into two.
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2019-07-15T20:54:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
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