Chapter lenghths

[emely-chan.livejournal.com]

I've just had a look at my chapter lenghts. My longest is 1667 words long (wow, coincidence? anyway.) but the shorted I just finsihed mere 600. Which, to be fair, shocked me a bit. Does that even count as a chapter?


How long are your chapers on average?

And how many words make a chapter anyway?

Comments

[alethessa.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten to a point where I separate chapters in my writing. When I work on my NaNo, unless it's a major POV change, I just divide into sections with an extra line. Hence, I don't have an average chapter length just yet.

But I've seen a bunch of books that have really short chapters. There's no set number of words that make up a chapter-- it's all up to you.