BobbyBrandt
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Okay, we'll exclude purposely short 750 word stories and focus on chapter stories and series for the sake of this discussion...I agree with what you say, but what does chapter length have to do with the literary quality of the story?
If the first chapter of a story on Literotica barely fills one page, that is typically a reliable indicator (at least for me) that the story's quality will be lacking. It screams impatience along with amateurish character and story development on the part of the writer. There are exceptions, and I'll admit that. However, they are few and far between.
It's the sum of the whole, so if there are short chapters interspersed among longer ones in a completed story, that is perfectly acceptable IMO. Some scenes take longer than others to develop and resolve. Some scenes are quick, "wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am" events that don't require a lot of words to describe them. But if the scene is so insignificant that it takes less than 3,750 to describe it, why have it in the story to begin with?
Again, these are just my views as a reader, here and elsewhere. I don't read pamphlets when I can read books.