: 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 put a paragraph break in your question as an edit, but it's still a huge block of text (now two huge blocks).

Chapter dividers are a grander version of that. They give your reader a chance to catch her/his breath. Don't make it hard for them to take a break. A lot of people like to stop at the end of a chapter.

Some books don't have any chapters at all. But a lot of people will choose not to read them for that reason.

So what's a reasonable range? Well it varies a lot. One comparison of well-known novels has a range from 942 words to 7226.

But...the 7226 (One Hundred Years of Solitude) is an outlier (and written in a language with a lot more use of articles than English). The next closest example is 6023 words, 3rd is 5294 words. The ones with the shortest chapters are young-adult/middle-grade or unusual formats.

The basic range seems to be 2000-5000 words for adult novels.

Sure, you can go over or under this as you wish. But I would break up your first chapter into two.

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