what is the average page per chapter for a book?

Answer 1

15 to 20 pages i actually dont go with some answers u have asked the average but thay are telling what they have read

Answer 2

The length of a chapter is determined by natural breaks in the story. When you switch scenes, it's a good idea to have a new chapter UNLESS the scenes are short. If you switch POV from one character to another, consider a new chapter.

Oh, and then there is the cliffhanger chapter. You don't want the reader to put down the book at a convenient spot so you stop the chapter after some great revelation or when the character is in deep s**t. Start a new one to keep the reader reading.

There is no real average length for a chapter, but I've found after publishing seven books that anywhere from 7 to 14 pages works. I've occasionally had a chapter as short as 5 pages, but really not often.

Answer 3

I doubt there is one -- that would be a lot of books to have to check to figure it out. It just depends on the author and their writing style. For instance, James Patterson writes books where a chapter with 6 pages is long but another author might write chapters that are 30 or 40 pages or longer. I suppose that most books that I read probably have chapters between 10 and 20 pages but there isn't a hard and fast rule.

Answer 4

I've read some novels, that each chapter was 4 to 12 pages. But each chapter had the same number of pages. If you can find a copy of Friends Of The OPpposite Sex by Sara Davidon
and War Of the Prophets by Judith Stevens, you could see how many pages they have, in each chapter. It would give you an idea, anyway.

Answer 5

That is up to you. For James Patterson, about a page and a half. For me - sometimes 25 pages, sometimes 5. I was taught by a very famous best selling author that it is good to vary the lengths.

It all depends on the scene. I view each chapter as a scene. When the scene is over the chapter is over. I write very cinematically.

How you structure your book is entirely up to you. Cormac Mc Carthy just won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. He used no chapters and no quotation marks. Anything goes. Pax - C

Answer 6

Probably ten to twenty pages per chapter.

Answer 7

For a shoet story i think each chapter should be 2000 words but I can never write the number of words you have if im not into writing

Answer 8

They can be anything.

I've read chapters only one sentence long, and I've read chapters 100+ pages long. It all depends on where the natural "breaks" are in a story.