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ficcie question
Topic Started: Nov 2 2005, 10:33 AM (293 Views)
hinarei	Nov 2 2005, 10:33 AM Post #1
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	I know a fair few people here are fanfic... fans. I have a question to put to these few, and to the rest of you, if you'd like to answer what's a reasonable length for a fanfic chapter, in words? I've read both long and short fics (some equating to little more than a paragraph), and stuck with them to the end, but I know some people aren't like that. I was told when I put up my first fic that it was too long and I should have chopped it up a bit.
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


mango	Nov 2 2005, 02:01 PM Post #2
Like I give a fuck Posts: 5,098 Group: AWOL Member #25 Joined: November 18, 2004	id say roughly similar to a two page essay
	Special Thanks to False Hope for making this GIF


hinarei	Nov 2 2005, 03:49 PM Post #3
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	for one chapter? I'm only using Notepad to write, and that doesn't keep track of pages very well... so it's hard to know what a two page essay should stop at :wacko:
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


Dyehard	Nov 2 2005, 08:33 PM Post #4
Forum Bitch Posts: 1,880 Group: First Lieutenant Member #56 Joined: August 8, 2005	You know it depends on the reader. If they really enjoy a fanfic, they will prefer the longer story. If one only likes em, such as myself I would prefer about 700 words. Seems about right.



Solo	Nov 2 2005, 11:41 PM Post #5
Interloper Posts: 1,019 Group: AWOL Member #6 Joined: September 11, 2004	As long as it takes to express the idea of the chapter. No more, no less.



mango	Nov 3 2005, 07:10 AM Post #6
Like I give a fuck Posts: 5,098 Group: AWOL Member #25 Joined: November 18, 2004	700 words is roughly about 2 pages... it depends on how many words u can cram for each line.. normally i do about 15 to 16 words per line.. and each page is around 30 something odd lines.. so each page is at least 450 words..
	Special Thanks to False Hope for making this GIF


hinarei	Nov 3 2005, 07:57 AM Post #7
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	alrighty. My Motoko/Suu fight fic was a single chapter of about 8000 words... I'm guessing from the average answer here that that's just a tad too long, then? :lol:
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


mango	Nov 3 2005, 08:16 AM Post #8
Like I give a fuck Posts: 5,098 Group: AWOL Member #25 Joined: November 18, 2004	you bet... way too long
	Special Thanks to False Hope for making this GIF


hinarei	Nov 3 2005, 03:25 PM Post #9
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	rightio then. I was thinking of settling on about 2000 words per chapter. That'd seem alright to me... still sounds a lot from what i've read here though
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


mango	Nov 3 2005, 03:51 PM Post #10
Like I give a fuck Posts: 5,098 Group: AWOL Member #25 Joined: November 18, 2004	2000 is a bit too much... well... how many chapters are u gonna write?
	Special Thanks to False Hope for making this GIF


hinarei	Nov 3 2005, 04:37 PM Post #11
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	well... cutting the first few bits at around the 2000 word mark... I've got eleven chapters so far >< not quite halfway through ><
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


Dyehard	Nov 3 2005, 07:56 PM Post #12
Forum Bitch Posts: 1,880 Group: First Lieutenant Member #56 Joined: August 8, 2005	Well that Motoko/Suu fight fic was brilliant Almost made me cry



hinarei	Nov 4 2005, 07:37 AM Post #13
Defender of MolMol Posts: 8,973 Group: General Member #1 Joined: September 5, 2004	when I wrote that I cried... :lol: I put myself through the mill writing that one
	Su waits til Tama has children before she eats her "I'm not evil, I'm just hungry!" Kaolla Suu, ah wish ye were whisky, ah would drink ye dry! Thanks Ariel!!


mango	Nov 4 2005, 09:37 AM Post #14
Like I give a fuck Posts: 5,098 Group: AWOL Member #25 Joined: November 18, 2004	bunch of pansies : P
	Special Thanks to False Hope for making this GIF


Tulkas	Nov 4 2005, 09:52 AM Post #15
Angry Admin Posts: 1,520 Group: Lieutenant General Member #5 Joined: September 9, 2004	MadCow809 Nov 4 2005, 08:37 PM bunch of pansies : P For perhaps the first (and hopefully the last) time in my life, I find myself agreeing with Cow. That is pretty pathetic



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