A New Chapter
New chapters turn up in life of course.
Writers’ Narrative, whom I write for, is moving platform to Substack.
In my writing, new chapters crop up a lot though the best, to date at least, was the discovery of flash fiction and being published in that form.
When it comes to reading, with the exception of Terry Pratchett who didn’t use chapter breaks for his Discworld series (he did for his Young Adult books), I do appreciate chapters. They give me a breather when I’m reading a lot. They give me somewhere to read to ahead of sleeping.
Yes, I often do give into the temptation to just read one more chapter and before you know it, the clock has moved on alarmingly! We’ve all been there.
I generally prefer shorter chapters. I suppose this may come from being a flash fiction and short story writer. Anything over 1000 words will seem long to me!
But I also prefer them because I like a good pace to my own stories and those I read and short chapters help a lot with that.
A new chapter is always, I think, an exciting part of a book when you’re reading it for the first time. It holds all the promise of you finding out what does happen next.
As for story collections of the kind I write, each story acts almost like its own chapter but I hope they encourage reading on to find out what happens next in the next story.
Writers’ Narrative, whom I write for, is moving platform to Substack.
In my writing, new chapters crop up a lot though the best, to date at least, was the discovery of flash fiction and being published in that form.
When it comes to reading, with the exception of Terry Pratchett who didn’t use chapter breaks for his Discworld series (he did for his Young Adult books), I do appreciate chapters. They give me a breather when I’m reading a lot. They give me somewhere to read to ahead of sleeping.
Yes, I often do give into the temptation to just read one more chapter and before you know it, the clock has moved on alarmingly! We’ve all been there.
I generally prefer shorter chapters. I suppose this may come from being a flash fiction and short story writer. Anything over 1000 words will seem long to me!
But I also prefer them because I like a good pace to my own stories and those I read and short chapters help a lot with that.
A new chapter is always, I think, an exciting part of a book when you’re reading it for the first time. It holds all the promise of you finding out what does happen next.
As for story collections of the kind I write, each story acts almost like its own chapter but I hope they encourage reading on to find out what happens next in the next story.
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