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The longest I've ever written was this one chapter I wrote for a fic long ago. Stats:

28 pages, 17,839 words, 1,686 paragraphs, 1,972 lines.

Holy mother of god, that's long. I've written five chapters of stuff, and it only hit 15 pages.

We'll just have to see as I get further along with The Invasion and The False Queen, now won't we?

I try for about 9-12 pages a chapter when I'm writing. Any longer, I fear, and people will lose interest and have to continue later.

I used to write 7-9 pages per chatpter, but now i do 4-5. I dont want to make them to long... but the longest ive written was like 23 or 24 pages. It was the finaly chapter to a fan fic i wrote...

The longest chapter I'm written is 17 pages.

Hmm...some of the Duchess' chapters of Fist of the Empire went on for a long, LONG time.

Shiova, how can you have 1600 paragraphs and 1900 lines? thats not even 2 lines per paragraph, and paragraphs need atleast 5 lines..

kojikun wrote:Shiova, how can you have 1600 paragraphs and 1900 lines? thats not even 2 lines per paragraph, and paragraphs need atleast 5 lines..

Dialogue.

verilon wrote:

kojikun wrote:Shiova, how can you have 1600 paragraphs and 1900 lines? thats not even 2 lines per paragraph, and paragraphs need atleast 5 lines..

Dialogue.

Lots of Dialogue.

Singular Quartet wrote:Lots of Dialogue.

Hmm. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

I routinely write 35-40 pages per chapter in a rough draft

I have a chunk of a story done which amounts to 50'000 words, but I may well split it up a touch.

Shinova wrote:

Singular Quartet wrote:Lots of Dialogue.

Hmm. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

In a screenplay, not as much as in a novel.

Novels, remember, use literal descriptions to give the reader a mental image of what is going on as there is no set, no CGI and no costume. While dialogue is good in a story (obviously you need it) excessive use of it can lead to loss of plot or cohesion in the actual storyline. No doubt in reality there are long conversations, but in a novel you simply can't go several pages just having a dialogue without at least some basic descriptive text going in there, so it is kept down in order to keep the story flowing and not lose interest.

But each writer has their own style, for me I like overly describing things which I have to avoid now as many have pointed out on other forums, so I use more dialogue than normal.

As to the question at hand, I think my longest chapter was just over 15,000 words as part of a 80,000 word piece which I lost on my old PC. It wasn't going anywhere I guess anyway.