: Re: 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

I don't think it is too long, I write chapters nearly that long.

Some readers (even my own) complain that they use chapters to gauge their progress through the story and as stopping points, and very long chapters mess them up on that.

You don't have to break yours up, but in response to that I have broken a chapter somewhere in the 40% to 60% area, by finding a dramatic moment to end one chapter, but continue with exactly the same scene and dialogue in the next chapter!

In a way, it was just to emphasize something revelatory that one character said; making it the last line in a chapter, kind of like a cliff-hanger before another character responds. But anything that could use a "dramatic pause" will do.

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