How genetically unhelpful. 🙂

To me, a chapter is a scene told from the POV of one character. I don’t have a degree in creative writing or literature though, so I could be wrong but that’s how I write them.

Sometimes my chapters are only a hundred words long. I’ve seen another writer with a few chapters that were one word long. It worked for him, but I haven’t had that brevity work for me. Sometimes, like the chapter I am working on now, it turns into a five thousand word monster. It’s not finished, by the way. More things keep happening. Shisti is determined to get some stuff done.

I thought I’d have her current shenanigans and skullduggery over in about three hundred words two weeks ago. But noooo, she’s taken over the story and hours of my writing time. I don’t blame her. She refuses to stay in the rather narrow parameters I created for her and because of that, Raven Chronicles, which I’d already mapped out as epic length, is growing in word count, and hopefully as a better story.

I’m thinking now that I need to break up her big chapter into several smaller ones and intersperse them between previous chapters with Azar and Fechin. But I need to finish writing it first. 🙂

However, I need a break from Shisti. So, today I am going to work on Banjaxed, Chestnut Fox and Unleashed. New chapters will start going up tonight!

Provided the characters behave themselves and do what I want.