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How Long Are Your Chapters?

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SuperflyMD:
My chapters seem a little short. They seem to end up around 1800 to 2000 words each. In my mind they wrap up OK and I don't really feel they're incomplete, but I'm curious about reader response. 

Enjorous:
I dunno, I think they vary. I mean someone like Dan Brown has epically short chapters, some of them I doubt are more than 500 words. Then you have someone like Stephen King who occasionally have 4 chapters in a 200 pages.

Gruud:
For some inexplicable reason, mine all seem to be tracking at right around 15 pages / 5000-ish words ...

It's starting to kinda creep me out.

And then I had one that came in at nearly twice that, and it makes me feel like its wrong ...

Snowleopard:
Just play it by ear, guys.  Let the chapters break where they want to - you can always go back later and alter the break if you think it needs changing.

Starbeam:
They're as long as they need to be.

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