Hi;
Do I have to keep all of my chapters the same size or very similar? At some points in my book, a scenario or event may have more detail, more people involved in it or just be an exchange between two people in a room.
Thank you for your input.
Hi;
Do I have to keep all of my chapters the same size or very similar? At some points in my book, a scenario or event may have more detail, more people involved in it or just be an exchange between two people in a room.
Thank you for your input.
Thank you for allowing me to express my view about engaging a writers' agent.Have read this column for ones, your negative opinion about engaging a writer's or author's agent is viewed positive, conclusive and concrete by me.
I can understand your technical idea of engaging a writer's agent but it is rather,an absurd thing to do. Though, it is possibly an idea that could be welcome cobweb writers or authors in the act.
Since, diverse authors and writers creatively exists. A gifted author or writer is building or contructing certain ideas which he is expressively trying to make known to the public in his works. So, the writer or author who is not a cobweb should strictly be preserving his work from the intermidiary of an agent who, might be a gooseberry to his work or a jerry worker.
After the writer's work has been properly arranged ,that is editorial and expression wise
the question is all solved. There after , it is only the services of a good, trust worthy and efficient publisher that should come in.There shouldn't be any reason why his work should be pushed about by any. Therefore, it is the writer or the author that must beat it with his work for the right publisher to come in.
In the workshop the writer or the author should be a beat it and not a beat up, a gerrymander; a turn round and a turn about person.
In 'As I Lay Dying', there's a chapter which consists of 'My mother is a fish.'
I've just rejected a novel for review: one of the reasons was that I had been ploughing through the first chapter for hours, and couldn't seem to get to the end of it - and I was still only 1% of the way through the book. (I didn't get to 3%.)
Sometimes a short chapter can give punch to a dramatic moment in your novel. It breaks up the monotony, and focuses on a scene.
You can have longish chapters divided into scenes with page breaks (which, if nothing else, gives your reader the will to live), which can be longer overall than 3000 words; or you can call each scene a chapter and end up with a lot of them. Alternatively you may have standard 3000-word chapters with the odd shorter one thrown in. For children or YA, shorter chapters are best.
Lorraine
I suggest your chapters are between eight to twelve pages. They can be as short as five or six pages, but it’s not advisable to have chapters of less than three pages in length. I would aim for 3000 words a chapter.