Novels and Length
Novels and Length One thing I have noticed, and which has never occurred to me before, is that no story has to be the same length here on the web as in real life. Let me explain. A novel has to start at 80,000 words before a publisher will even bother looking at the first draught. So you can do the maths and say you have to divide it up into chapter of about 10-12 to make it readable. Thus giving you an average chapter length of 6 to 8 thousand words. Now this is colossal length for a web post,... Sign in to see full entry.