eileenmcilwain:
How many words in length should your chapters be for YA Fiction?
Wow dude, that's really good. Is that double spaced or single? Reason I'm asking: I have a 24 paged chapter and it's 14,000 words (more actually, I approximated).Anything goes. It's roughly 4 pages per 1000 words. If you like short chapters, maybe 2000. If you like longer, go for that.
Personally, my chapters tend to be around 4000-4500 each (15-20 pages). But, really, anything is fine.
Wow dude, that's really good. Is that double spaced or single? Reason I'm asking: I have a 24 paged chapter and it's 14,000 words (more actually, I approximated).
Most of my books are about 2,000 words per chapter. The one I just wrote was more like 4,000 each. It really doesn't matter.
i would have given a smartypants answer to this a while ago. i would have said "as long as it takes" or "seven" or something. but i've been reading a buttload of YA lately...i'm on my 7th in a row...and i'm noticing that the chapters are shorter. and i'm noticing it consistently...not just a slight pattern. the chunks are smaller. i'm reading them because the weekend of the 16th i am doing a 72 hour novel writing marathon and i plan on writing a YA...so I've just been reading them like crazy just to get a feel. the one thing i noticed is that the chapters are almost always and entirely shorter than what i'm used to reading. interesting.
Wow dude, that's really good. Is that double spaced or single? Reason I'm asking: I have a 24 paged chapter and it's 14,000 words (more actually, I approximated).
Haha. This reminds me of the Council of Elrond chapter, 100 pages, 20,000 words an nothing freakin happens.
Council of Elrond is...er...an acquired taste .
I do have a question though: are chapter breaks mandatory when you begin submitting your manuscript? It is acceptable to say that you're not quite sure whether or not you even want chapters, and just use scene breaks...or is it better to just make chapters anyways even if they will completely change in the future?