Hey, writer friends, is 1150 words a good chapter length?
@terrana It's up to the writer, really. Personally I'm in a boat of "pure length agnostic, as long as it fits a complete, well, chapter." One paragraph is fine as a chapter as long as it stands on its own.
@Facet Hm, good answer! I just ended the chapter when it felt like it was time to end it and only counted the words afterwards, so it sounds like I did that right.
@terrana Honestly, depending on presentation a chapter being very short can make a point of its own. It could put a passage on a pedestal to drive home its importance, or speak to the comparable irrelevance or out of place feeling of a statement.
@Facet @terrana we've seen that a few times! One memorable instance, though I can't remember what it was from, was a book where chapters alternated between a couple of viewpoints, and one chapter was just something along the lines of "<viewpoint character> was still unconscious.", then it went on to the next chapter.
-F
@Felthry @terrana One thought I had, were I hypothetically to write something serious, would be to have a breakpoint chapter that is just 5 blank pages, followed by the next chapter, which is 5 years later, notes the last 5 years as having been a blur, and everything before being a distant memory.