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What is the ideal chapter length? (2023)
Whether it's short for today's distracted reader, or written long, the history of the chapter is full of variations, trends, and surprises.
The Parisian scholars of the early 13th Century could not abide such chaos, and so a standardised chaptering of the Bible was developed, dividing the book into regular sections themed by time and place while still adhering to key moments. The episodic nature in which some novels were delivered, such as Charles Dickens ’ The Pickwick Papers and George Eliot's Middlemarch, both released in monthly instalments, brought in cliffhanger endings and an increased sense of adventure. Cormac McCarthy eschewed a chapter structure altogether for his 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, to emphasise the gruelling journey being undertaken by his father and son lead characters through post-apocalyptic America.
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