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RyotaAi

How do you guys go about planning chapters?

Advice

Basically I've gone ahead and wrote 4 very long chapters so far with no real idea where I'm going, so I'm just going to start back at chapter 1 and use those 4 chapters as a practice run.

I want to know how you guys go about planning out your chapters while understanding stuff like pacing. I would love to just be able to write down a few sentences as an outline of a chapter to then flesh out but I worry so much about pacing. "Am I rushing too fast to this scene?" "How did we get here?" "Where do I go from here?"

Basically a way that makes sense. I know everyone has their own way about it, but what's some ways you guys plan your chapters specifically?

Posted Jun 3, 2025, 7:55 AM UTC

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