How many pages does a chapter needs to be?Is half a page for a chapter good enough?I want to have 256 characters in a big town, and then make each character have a 20 chapters story and each chapter to be half a page.Is this good enough?
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>>25275655A chapter doesn't have a length requirement. A chapter is a container that divides a narrative into a structural segment. I have read chapters that are half a page, and I have read chapters that were 20% of the book.
>>25275655ten pages is the minimum and maximum
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>>25275655It depends on how big the page is and how big the letters are
>>25275655You can even have a chapter of no words. Chapter is just the unit of meaning above the paragraph. Sometimes there are sections between paragraph and chapter and sometimes people do other things but the basics are:>phrase>clause>sentence>paragraph>chapter>bookPhrase works towards clause, clause towards sentence, sentence towards paragraph, paragraph towards chapter and chapter towards book. Define how the chapter relates to the information it contains and how the chapter works towards the whole and your chapters can be any length. Simple example; if you did 256 chapters and each chapter was the life of a person in your town the reader would pick that up fairly quickly and when they got to chapter 174 and it is a blank page with nothing but "Chapter 174" on it, they would interpret that as a full life and think maybe this person was stillborn or aborted or maybe the mother died before her child was born, or what ever and they would try and find clues in the rest to explain this character whose life could summed up with a blank page. Once you have established that each chapter is a life you have a great deal of freedom in how you represent a life, the reader will intuitively seek out that person the chapter represents. It is mostly about creating patterns for the reader to pick up on and doing it in ways subtle and/or natural enough that you are not beating them over the head with the patterns unless the patterns themselves are the point.
>>25275655If you want each character to have a 10 page story, then that story itself is the chapter.Any further division would be redundant, just do scene breaks (usually an asterisk) where appropriate.This sounds like a prose version of Spoon River or Under Milk Wood, and I predict you'll want to narrow it down to 50 for your own sanity, and 10 so as not to repeat yourself.
>>25275655why are you asking about formal standards when you're already attempting a formally weird book? why is everyone on this board so freakin *#?&%!
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>>25275655Kill yourself cris.
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