Lit Pages Equal Chapters

[NOIRTRASH]

There's no hard and fast rule for print page word count or print chapter lengths, but 375 and 3750 works for each, and 3750 words is a LIT page, much of the time.

My brain naturally hunts method in madness, and I've stalking what makes stories slow treks or rabbits fleeing greyhounds. The short answer is CHAPTER LENGTH, 10 pages is average, 20 pages is the extreme. I usually decline to read any LIT wares that exceed 2 LIT pages or 7500 words. Stephen King says 5000 words is the sweet spot, I agree. Yet all of Kings later efforts are long treks that need serious trimming, while his popular early works fly.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I may look at scenes to see what the best lengths are.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I think Lit pages are long, like really freaking long.

My friend and I write sometimes at the same time. Once we did a challenge and we had a picture that we were both writing a story about. We both wrote for a few hours then sent the stories to each other.
Mine was long. Like three nice size chapters. About 8500 words.
Hers was about 5 paragraphs long. We both told pretty much the same story, but I tend to lose my train of thought and ramble.

Kind of like here now. I forgot the point I was trying to make.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I think Lit pages are long, like really freaking long.

My friend and I write sometimes at the same time. Once we did a challenge and we had a picture that we were both writing a story about. We both wrote for a few hours then sent the stories to each other.
Mine was long. Like three nice size chapters. About 8500 words.
Hers was about 5 paragraphs long. We both told pretty much the same story, but I tend to lose my train of thought and ramble.

Kind of like here now. I forgot the point I was trying to make.

But you make sense.

When I worked I wrote short, sweet, and compact legal documents. Judge love brief, briefs. TO THE POINT makes them happy. But the same writing infuriates bureaucrats who hide in long rambles. I wrote to please lawyers.

So write interesting rambles! Its who you are.

 

[SimonDoom]

There's no hard and fast rule for print page word count or print chapter lengths, but 375 and 3750 works for each, and 3750 words is a LIT page, much of the time.

My brain naturally hunts method in madness, and I've stalking what makes stories slow treks or rabbits fleeing greyhounds. The short answer is CHAPTER LENGTH, 10 pages is average, 20 pages is the extreme. I usually decline to read any LIT wares that exceed 2 LIT pages or 7500 words. Stephen King says 5000 words is the sweet spot, I agree. Yet all of Kings later efforts are long treks that need serious trimming, while his popular early works fly.

This seems right to me too, but it doesn't seem to match the preferences of most Lit readers, who, judging from scoring, have no objection to long chapters and long, unbroken stories.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

This seems right to me too, but it doesn't seem to match the preferences of most Lit readers, who, judging from scoring, have no objection to long chapters and long, unbroken stories.

When LIT readers differ from print readers I wonder about score validity.

 

[sr71plt]

In traditional novel print, 5,000 was a standard chapter length--which would be two Lit. pages. The e-revolution (and the lowering of attention span by electronics, in general) has brought that down to about 3,500 words--one Lit. page.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

To Pilette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr7I4gOSXk

 

[KindofHere]

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[sr71plt]

"Pages" has little meaning in actual length. Book design can make a lot of pages and a few pages out of the same wordage. Traditionally, print books averaged 20 pages per chapter.

A lot of comparisons being made here don't have a comparable base to them.

 

[KindofHere]

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[sr71plt]

I'm not going to sit here and count the words of each chapter, but pages of books and typeset give an indication. sr7plt, the more you talk, the less I believe what you say. I'm not going to argue.

I'd be happy not to hear from you at all. That doesn't change the fact that "pages"--either in print or a computer program--doesn't tell you much in terms of wordage or comparison. Your attempt to make any sort of meaningful comparisons of anything was time wasted--but it's OK with me if you want to waste your time. I don't mind pointing out to others that it's pretty meaningless.

 

[NicoleZ]

A chapter that is only one Lit page long is a short chapter and a full-length printed novel would run to some 25 such chapters. Some authors write books like that and successfully too whereas others are equally successful with half the number of chapters of twice the length. Elsewhere in cyberspace (not on Lit) aspiring novices proudly post "chapters" once weekly or monthly that run to no more than 300 - 400 words, which is a great way to boost the number of views. The worst example I've come across was by one industrious "mechant" who wrote and posted one such "chapter" every single day and the story had run on for a year and a half with no end in sight.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

A chapter that is only one Lit page long is a short chapter and a full-length printed novel would run to some 25 such chapters. Some authors write books like that and successfully too whereas others are equally successful with half the number of chapters of twice the length. Elsewhere in cyberspace (not on Lit) aspiring novices proudly post "chapters" once weekly or monthly that run to no more than 300 - 400 words, which is a great way to boost the number of views. The worst example I've come across was by one industrious "mechant" who wrote and posted one such "chapter" every single day and the story had run on for a year and a half with no end in sight.

One of many character faults is the habit of researching things before I blabber about them here or anywhere. Why just today I found plenty of online sites dedicated to story, chapter, and page lengths....not one of them in agreement with any of the others. But Laurels fixed parameters correlate with one site. Plus I wet my finger and count whats in real books. Printers have standards publishers conform to.

I also get how LIT scribblers are generally clueless and suffer rejections till they buy clues and please Pompous Pilette..

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

One of many character faults is the habit of researching things before I blabber about them here or anywhere. Why just today I found plenty of online sites dedicated to story, chapter, and page lengths....not one of them in agreement with any of the others. But Laurels fixed parameters correlate with one site. Plus I wet my finger and count whats in real books. Printers have standards publishers conform to.

I also get how LIT scribblers are generally clueless and suffer rejections till they buy clues and please Pompous Pilette..

Well, I will agree that I am generally clueless, and I do hope my rambles are interesting!hehehe
They are to my best friend, for whom I write, so it's all good.