I like chapter breaks so I can put a bookmark in and go to bed when I need to.
Chapters vary in length between authors and within books, often, though they're usually fairly close.
I haven't really thought about this topic before. I think of a chapter as a group of related events or scenes, usually 3. My scenes are 1500-ish words long. I don't cliffhanger them, and I don't think that's strictly necessary -- we're not writing serials for newspapers! It should leave the reader wanting to turn the page, so it shouldn't be dull, either.
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Date: 2009-11-05 11:48 pm (UTC)Chapters vary in length between authors and within books, often, though they're usually fairly close.
I haven't really thought about this topic before. I think of a chapter as a group of related events or scenes, usually 3. My scenes are 1500-ish words long. I don't cliffhanger them, and I don't think that's strictly necessary -- we're not writing serials for newspapers! It should leave the reader wanting to turn the page, so it shouldn't be dull, either.