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Longer Chapters? (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-26 14:52:59
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Poll

Longer Chapters?

  • Yes 51
  • No 7
  • 2024-05-26
  • 58 votes
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Content

So, it has been brought to my attention that some of you wish to see longer chapters. So, I decided to make a poll to figure out just how many of you would like to see it implemented.

Should I increase the chapter length? If I do, it would likely go from about 1.5k-3k up to 3k-5k, with chapters I deem special being up to 5k-8k.

Note, if I do this, my update rate may slow a bit. Not by as much as it slowed before I started updating frequently again recently, but it may only allow 2 chapters a week. I'm thinking Tuesday and Thursday at around 8 PM US EST

Also note that there are two other fics I've been writing but not posting because I've been trying to get a huge stockpile for them so I can post them at scheduled periods. This means that those chapters would not be affected by the change, should you all decide I should write longer chapters.

Edit: There is a chance I write more than two chapters a week, and that is on the condition that someone has purchased a tier in which they commission words for a fic of their choice. If you have any of those tiers, hit me up on Discord and ask for those commissioned words. A lot of you haven't been doing so, so I have no idea what you want.

Comments

Zerak

Would rather slower releases but with actual stuff happening in them. The last 2 chapters of the overlord fic felt like an intro to a chapter. My advice is don’t try and make all chapters the same length, this will cause unintended issues. Sometimes you will end a scene satisfactorily in 2/3 the normal length you usually write. That is fine, end chapter there. Other times you are on a roll, you really feel the scene you are writing so you add more details than you normally do. But you still have not covered what you intended with the chapter. In this case you should keep going till you hit a point where you feel it’s good to stop the chapter. Trying to confine yourself into an exact word count will just drop the quality. Granted you can’t constantly be pumping out double length chapters, but generally speaking as a story progresses into an important part of an arc, you will generally need longer chapters to cover everything you want in a chapter. There is a difference between cliffhanger and cut halfway through. A cliffhanger makes you want to read next chapter. The other one makes you wonder where the rest of the chapter is at.

Zerak
>>139051659

Keep in mind you aren’t writing an essay. You are writing a story. If you feel inspired keep writing till you stop. After that you can split it into more than one chapter if you think it covers enough scenes for more than one chapter. If you are writing and keeping an eye on the word count you are definitely doing something wrong. At the very least it means that writing is a chore, and unless you are making really good money off of it, it is not worth making creative writing a chore, specially when you have multiple fic (you can drop one you don’t like or focus on the one you feel inspired to write at the time). Not sure why word count is the used metric (unless you are doing commissions per word count), but if you want to make a word count per chapter I would recommend just writing without the word count for a few chapters then finding the average if those chapters, and that would be what you average for a good chapter. The average word count for a decent sized chapter varies from author to author based on their story and writing style. I have seen authors who need to average 8-12k words to have a decent chapter, and some authors who can do a decent chapter in 1k words. It all depends on writing style, and what they want to show. Also frequency of releases (that is important). From a reader perspective I got excited the last 3 or so times when a chapter of the overlord story came out, only to be disappointed that barely anything happened. With each progressive chapter making less hyped since I came to expect nothing to happen (was actually planing to hold off on reading for a few chapters to build up a bit then read at once before your post on longer chapters came out).

Rhett Sellers

I dont mind either way, but there are occasional chapters that serve as bridges, scene setters, or status updates. Rather than just that, I would see something longer for those chapters in particular.