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: Is it a good idea to pause a plot while doing a few one-offs and then going back? This is for my webcomic, and I'm trying my best to keep it about writing, sorry if it's off-topic or something.
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: Asking about chapter's length Is that okay if in a short story, a chapter's length is 450 words? And then you find a chapter with 1000 or more words?
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: How to Structure a single-perspective Novel into Chapters? Now my case is not novel-wide; I have to do this in one part of the novel, but I extended the question to a more generalised one,
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: When should I start thinking about chapters? I'm putting together an editing plan for myself for my novel, and someone said something that made me think of chapters. For my first draft, I hadn't
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: What is the proper way to insert a subsection into a section / end a subsection within a section? Not sure if this belongs here, or math.stackexchange but what's the proper way to do a special
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: Can a Chapter have up to 500 words So far I am writing my fiction historical novel. It is being narrated in bits and pieces. Hence, story is NOT in chronological order. As Person is being
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: Using song titles for chapter names from same artist? I'm writing a thriller that takes place in 1950s NYC. The plot has already been fully written. I'm considering having chapter names take
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: Is starting each chapter with a diary entry cliche? In my post-apocalyptic story, my narrator keeps a journal, and each new chapter starts with a journal entry of hers that's relevant to the
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: Is it a big no-no to have different sections in each chapter? For non fiction writing, is it a must to structure all chapters in the same way? For example, a book has a few chapters, with
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: Is it confusing to name a chapter after a non-POV character? I've got another chapter title question. In the first chapter of my story, a significant secondary character is introduced, and I
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: Reusing story title as chapter title I've come up with a good title for my story, but it would also work really well as the title for the first chapter. However, I wonder whether it's at
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: Building a scene and readability When building a scene at the beginning of a chapter for instance, before character interactions take place, what are the important elements to consider, and how
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: Self-Publishing Chapters Is selling individual chapters a valid marketing scheme? Is there anything against it or examples where it worked to sell a whole novel?
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: Is it okay for a chapter's POV to shift as it progresses? I have this duo in my novel, they're always together in chapters. Usually the story alternates between them within their plot, though
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: Is 7000 words too long for a chapter? I've been working on a story for the last 4 years. It's just a personal project now and I've gone really in depth to clean up any plot holes I can
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: How to plan length of a chapter? I have planned my book to be around 250 pages. Because that is my target audience. In my country I can sell the book of that length for around 250-300 rupees.
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: Are there any established rules for splitting books into parts, chapters, sections etc? I am working with an author, whose approach is to write her text, approximately divided by indicators where
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: Organizing categories and tags for a writing blog I've started a writing blog (specifically for research and other information about my novel in progress) with Wordpress and am having a very
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: Prologue or chapter 1? Ok so, I’m kind of new to writing. I wrote a couple of books in my teens but they were just for fun. I’m now starting to write a book I hope to get published.
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: Is there a place for an epilogue in a standalone novel? By definition, an epilogue is an additional chapter after the end of a book. Also, it literally means "additional word". I can imagine
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: What to submit when asked for "sample chapters"? For a submission (to a grant program, competition, agent, or publisher) that asks for sample chapters, which chapters do you choose? For example,
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: Should the average length of a chapter depend on the length of the novel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count#In_fiction This Wikipedia page tells you under which classification a fictional work
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: Is it okay for the final chapter to be a lot longer than all the other chapters? In one of my novels (it's a middle grade fantasy novel) the chapters average around 2,000 words. But the
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: Sizing of a chapter and how many should I use? This is basically a follow-up question I asked here: Scene switching and how to do it? I always considered it normal for a chapter to have
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: How do you deal with Chapter 2 when Chapter 1 is a volcano opening? I know the logic behind volcano openings and why they’re problematic (they set the expectation that that level of action
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: When we start a book from the climax (from the middle of the chapter), what is it called? Let's say that we have a plot that goes from A-Z and M is the middle (climax) part of it. There
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: Is it necessary to use chapters for fiction? Life doesn't happen in chapters — at least, not regular ones. Nor do movies. Homer didn't write in chapters. I can see what their purpose
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: Is it ok to begin a new chapter with a completely new character/time/setting? I think I've written a pretty good chapter one, but now the question is: where do I go from there? I mean:
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: Should important events that happen a long time before the rest of the story be in a prologue or in chapter 1? Context: I’m currently writing a novel that has a built in prologue. I’m
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: Is it too long for each chapter of a 12-15 chapter novel to be around 10k words in length? I'm writing my first novel and I wanted to try and write around 12-15 chapters about 10k-ish (give
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: How can I plan the chapters in my book? I'm looking for methods of planning chapters for books. I always saw structures and scripting in the macro level, but never in the micro level.
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: Chapter 1 Problems I've written for a year now(ish) and I've come along some great ideas I'd like to form into existence. But I always, always, ALWAYS have one problem. I can't seem to get
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: Character feelings? I have 2 characters that I want to have a romantic tension with. The feelings are unrequited. Can I have it so that 1 chapter basically introduces and then ends the
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: Writing garbage to see if the characters do something interesting? I need a change ~ 80% of the way through my story. At the moment, I'm just throwing my characters into different combinations
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: Chapter size matters? My chapters are usually 10 or so pages long, but I've been reading this one book with chapters as small as 2 pages. Does this affect the story progression at all?
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: What is the best way to test two version of chapter 1? Here I ask/discuss some feedback I have gotten about my chapter 1. After attending a different/second writers' critique group, I was
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: What to do if the chapter is too short and needs something but it just seems to stop? I have a few chapters in the novel I'm writing, and it seems that they just end randomly. I feel there
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: What to do with 'blank' chapters? I have a chapter outline for the novel series I'm writing, and I have a few 'blank' chapters where I don't know what to write in them. I need to do something
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: Longer or shorter chapters? This is not a question asking if I should add more or less to my chapters in terms of descriptions and so on to make them longer or shorter. It's more about grouping
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: Am I Breaking Too Many Rules? I've finally committed to writing my first novel. I've been listening to things like Writing Excuses which encourages first time writers to finish their works, but
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