Yeah, pretty much every chapter I write, no matter what the project, ends up being 4500-5500 words. It just feels like the most natural length to me as a writer.
As a reader, though, I scarcely pay attention to chapter length unless they're exceptionally short (like 100 words or less) or annoyingly long (as in Ursula LeGuin's The Other Sea, which was a very hard book to put down and not in a good way -- great writing, but with three kids I needed to be able to stop SOMEWHERE, and it annoyed me at times that her scenes kept going and going even when there wasn't anything particularly exciting happening in the plot).
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Date: 2007-10-16 05:17 pm (UTC)As a reader, though, I scarcely pay attention to chapter length unless they're exceptionally short (like 100 words or less) or annoyingly long (as in Ursula LeGuin's The Other Sea, which was a very hard book to put down and not in a good way -- great writing, but with three kids I needed to be able to stop SOMEWHERE, and it annoyed me at times that her scenes kept going and going even when there wasn't anything particularly exciting happening in the plot).