Did you know...

[octoberdreaming]

...that a chapter in a book generally contains between 4,000 and 6,000 words? My chapters have an average of about 1,300 words. *sigh*

Comments

[tarlia]

Mine are between 300-600 words, per chapter. XD

[octoberdreaming]

I feel better now. ;)

4000-6000 per chapter??

[javatto]

may i ask where you came by that count?? i'm constantly wondering things like that, or how a single-spaced 1"-margined MS word doc's word count compares to the word count on a single page of a hardcover novel. i'd love some basis for comparison. thanks!

Re: 4000-6000 per chapter??

[octoberdreaming]

*blushes*
Ok, first, don't think I'm weird - I only wanted to know how my chapters compared to actual published books... I grabbed a Patricia McKillup book and a Robin McKinley book and a Mercedes Lackey book, counted the avg. words per page, averaged the pages per chapter, did some multiplication and came up with a low and a high average of words per chapter for the three books.

I think I need help.