dragonlady
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Chapter finished
I just finished the first chapter of my new story!
I'm so glad cos I've been thinking ahead quite a bit with this one and can't wait to get to the next bits.
It's a pretty long one; 13 large Word pages, 11336 words.
Possibly that's a bit too long, a friend of mine tends to write shortish chapters of 4-6 large Word pages. It's odd I like to read short-medium chapters but I tend to write long ones. I can probably subdivide or summarise it later if need be.
The point is that I've finished the first stretch and I'm fairly happy with the results even if I have to re-edit/rewrite a bit later.
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"Why sometimes I've believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast" -- Red Queen, Lewis Carrol
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12/2/2007, 12:37 pm
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tryingtowrite
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Re: Chapter finished
That's great!
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12/2/2007, 12:54 pm
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hadaad
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Re: Chapter finished
I like reading short chapters, myself but that's because I usually think of reading as a challenge. I want to fly through the book and short chapters (that are complete) help with that.
However, if a short chapter is incomplete, I would rather it were longer.
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12/3/2007, 5:05 pm
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hadaad
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Re: Chapter finished
I think anything goes. Write from yourself. Don't write to anything.
When you revise, rewrite and all that, then you can figure out a goal. Just get the story down and dont' worry too much about form or fitting it into anything like that.
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12/3/2007, 7:01 pm
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dragonlady
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Re: Chapter finished
Thanks Hadaad, that's good advice and more or less what I'm trying to do at the moment.
I have friends who will read over what I've written as I go, that way I catch flaws, plot holes and (mostly) bad grammar.
But you're right the structure of the thing itself needn't be an issue until I've got more of the story down.
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12/4/2007, 7:00 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Chapter finished
Hi Dragon!
Don't worry about the chapter size. I've got some chapters in my stories that are only 4-5 pages long, and others that are 20-30! It all depends on what's happening. As an old English teacher of mine said while refering to essays and writing in general: "Write until you're finished, and not one page more or less."
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