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Questions to ponder part 11
mare:
--- Quote from: KeepThisSecret on July 09, 2014, 12:43:55 PM ---^ Excuse me while I gag in a corner ... would you like me to write a descriptive piece about that?!?! LOL
^ Perfectly said!!
In relation to the part about alternating POV, I have found myself looking at the chapter lengths and worrying that I'm not giving each character an equal amount of "voice time". For instance, if I write a Nick chapter that's 3000 words long and then I write a Howie chapter that's only 1500 words long then I feel as though I've short-changed Howie. I find that I feel this way even if Howie's chapter was way more action packed then Nick's. I know it's about the content and not about the word count, but it still nags at me. Perhaps that's a little bit of OCD coming out though. :P
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Um...no, you may skip that! And poor Howie. He always gets short changed by people! LOL
mare:
Julie all your questions always involve research! LOL I have a gazillion stories on this site I'd have to go through to answer that question. But now I'm curious so I'll have to go check!
RokofAges75:
LOL I just did a quick scroll through mine and only the ones that I knew had long chapters. I figured it would either be BMS or Undead. I've been surprisingly more concise with the stuff I've written more recently.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: KeepThisSecret on July 09, 2014, 12:43:55 PM ---In relation to the part about alternating POV, I have found myself looking at the chapter lengths and worrying that I'm not giving each character an equal amount of "voice time". For instance, if I write a Nick chapter that's 3000 words long and then I write a Howie chapter that's only 1500 words long then I feel as though I've short-changed Howie. I find that I feel this way even if Howie's chapter was way more action packed then Nick's. I know it's about the content and not about the word count, but it still nags at me. Perhaps that's a little bit of OCD coming out though. :P
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LOL I am totally like that too. Oddly enough, it was Nick who was getting the short end of the stick at the beginning of my new Nick/Howie fic, but only because Howie's parts were just more interesting. Yay Howie!
mare:
So I went and did a search and decided to not even bother looking at my way older stories for the longest chapters and I figured it would come from Why I'd Do it All Again and I was right. Chapter 20 titled "So that’s why God invented Garbage Bags and Backpacks" was 4,762 words. I don't even remember that chapter lol but there ya go!
As far as shortest I was almost positive it was Mizpah because I was a writing hot mess when I wrote that one and sure enough the second chapter weighed in at a whopping 243 words!! lmao I probably thought that was SO long when I wrote that. You guys have to remind me to submit this one into the reading challenge next year because I would love to get a present take on this one! 243 words *snort*
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