Templates Suck. Don’t Use Them for Your Book

I often get many questions regarding how long a chapter should be. Quite honestly, I find this question absurd and shallow. The worst thing a future author can do is conform to some template of another successful book just so they can make some dough. Don’t write a novel because you want to make money – write it because you want to tell a story through textual means. If you write because you are trying to meet some quota or some format, your audience will see the shallowness of your pages.

Now, there is a difference between getting some help and trying to fill in the blanks on a template. We all have to build from somewhere, build our foundation from the education of others. But once you piece that information together, it is up to you to use your brain to make it your own…

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