How long is a chapter?

Who knows? I don’t! But carving up my latest book into chapters got me thinking about it…

While drafting and editing, I tend to work in scenes as opposed to chapters. My thinking is that scenes are segments of the story that’s being told, whereas chapters are breaks designed for the readers. Sometimes they line up and sometimes they don’t.

Very recently I reached that point in every book where I couldn’t see the forest for the trees and needed to get some fresh eyes on it. But before I pas...