000 to 6,000 words. Michael Crichton writes chapters just as long, but he also famously throws in short, snappy chapters of 500 or 600 words. It’s hard to define the “ideal” or even the “average” chapter word count.
Word count for books by genre There’s no single answer to how many words in a novel. While80,000is anaverageword length for anaveragenovel (is there such a thing?), when it comes to specific genres of fiction there is somevariation[118]. Certain genres –epic[119]fantasy fiction[120]...