About how long do you want your chapters? I'm never sure, myself.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - May 26, 2009 9:36:20 am PDT #1593 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Gudanov - May 26, 2009 9:42:00 am PDT #1594 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
My chapters are ending up around 5000 - 6000 words though I'm just breaking where it seems like a good place for a break or where there is an obvious break in the story. Chapter 15 was only around 1000 words though as there was no logical way to put it into another chapter.
Beverly - May 26, 2009 11:56:53 am PDT #1595 of 6690
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Gud, break your chapters a page or two after the obvious scene ender. You want your reader reluctant to put the book down. Don't tie a bow on a chapter for them, make them read on!
Gudanov - May 26, 2009 4:58:51 pm PDT #1596 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
That sounds like a good idea. Not many chapters really leave things wrapped up, but I'll have to remember that when revising and see if I need to shift some endings around.
Gudanov - May 26, 2009 5:32:42 pm PDT #1597 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm in the middle of writing the intimate scene in Chapter 16 so, of course, I'm getting bombarded by interruptions.
Gudanov - May 27, 2009 4:41:07 am PDT #1598 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I finished up Chapter 16 somehow last night. That puts me at 95k words. Chapter 17 will be a short one so maybe tonight I can crank it out. Chapter 18 should be fun to write it will be the only chapter in which to story is told from the perspective of the most interesting character in the story.
Amy - May 27, 2009 4:43:05 am PDT #1599 of 6690
Because books.
Great progress, Gud.
Although I will say, it's cracking me up that you refer to it as an "intimate scene." I say that with love, though. And ... as someone who is pretty blase about writing what I fondly call straight-up smut.
Barb - May 27, 2009 4:46:28 am PDT #1600 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Although I will say, it's cracking me up that you refer to it as an "intimate scene." I say that with love, though. And ... as someone who is pretty blase about writing what I fondly call straight-up smut.
Amy is me. *g*
Ailleann - May 27, 2009 4:48:03 am PDT #1601 of 6690
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Yay smut!
... What?
Gudanov - May 27, 2009 4:50:04 am PDT #1602 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
It really wasn't all that smutty. The other one in the book needs to be rewritten and will probably get smuttier.