Oakley Woodson's Notebook

Oakley Woodson

May 17, 2019 at 7:03am

what do you do when you have severe writers block and can't seem to find inspiration from anything around you?

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LazyWriter

May 17, 2019 at 9:09am

Go to sleep and hope the problem has gone away when you wake up?

Seriously, though, I find that reading back through some stuff I've written (not necessarily the story being worked on) sort of reignites the passion. But it might just reignite the passion for the story you read, not the one you need to work on. The idea behind reading another is that it's not as fresh so you can enjoy it almost like an outsider and even better if that's an incomplete project! You get ideas floating through your head and a need to get back into writing.

This works for me but it might not work for anyone else. We're all different, after all.

Oakley Woodson

Apr 30, 2019 at 7:52am

Hey all, I just posted the newest update of my book! Please be brutally honest with it

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Dominique

Apr 26, 2019 at 12:03pm

Welcome to WdC! A wonderful community of writers. I hope you enjoy yourself here. I know I have. I highly suggest you dive in head first and be as active as possible within the community. If you have any questions, feel free to email me and ask at any time!

Dominique

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Oakley Woodson

Apr 25, 2019 at 11:34pm

Hi everyone, obviously I'm new here and pretty overwhelmed by everything. I just want to attempt to write a decent book maybe a series. But I don't know how long the chapters should be, or even how many chapters I should do.

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Annette

Apr 26, 2019 at 12:05am

There is no hard and fast rule to give you. The question you should ask yourself is: how long of a chapter do you like reading in a book?

I once read a book that had very short chapters. Sometimes, a chapter was only a half page. The way those short chapters ended kept me up and reading all night long.

On the other hand, I also recently finished a series of three books in which the chapters were several pages long, maybe 20 or so. Those chapters had a lot of content, but they also ended on a cliffhanger that made me want to keep reading on.

So, how long your chapters are really depends on the pace you want to set and how much story you want to put into each chapter.

Whatever you choose to do, I recommend sticking to one style of chapter length. That doesn't mean all you chapters have to have the exact same page numbers, but if you're going for multi-page chapters, maybe keep them "around" a similar page number. So 5-10 or 7-12 or whatever works best.