I've been checking through my old meta-ramblings to see if there's anything that needs to be included; I see I originally wrote with trepidation that "I only have room for sixteen chapters" while noting that I had already had to split one of my seventeen plot points over two chapters. I have only one thing to say to that. HAH!
Rough chapter/page count for Christine/Erik section: 9 chapters, 55 pages @500 words/page (27,500 words approx in chapters of ~3000 words) Rough chapter/page count for Raoul section: 2 chapters, 12 pages @500 words/page + 3 extra pages @300 words/page, followed by another 5 chapters and 58 pages @300 words/page (although that last 'chapter' is fourteen pages long and composed of multiple scenes over an eventful couple of days; we'll count it as two, since I'm going to have to decide during the typing-up stage which of the many possible points I'm going to split it at). That makes another 24,000 words in eight chapters of approx. 3000 words, which is actually a pretty even balance, despite taking immeasurably longer to write!
However, I still have to cover plot point 9 (point 8 was Christine's escape, and I've already done that) before our two young protagonists are reunited, battered and bruised and very, very glad to see one another alive and well. And in Raoul's case, considerably more adult than when they parted ;-)
If I aim to polish off the fairly eventful plot point 9 in three thousand words or so, or at least not more than a couple of chapters, that will then balance out the two 'arcs' very neatly, even if one is almost entirely static and the other covers over a thousand miles :-p Not that anyone other than me is going to be counting -- and it's more a matter of pacing than anything else. But it gives me a guideline.
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Date: 2019-01-31 10:47 pm (UTC)HAH!
Rough chapter/page count for Christine/Erik section: 9 chapters, 55 pages @500 words/page (27,500 words approx in chapters of ~3000 words)
Rough chapter/page count for Raoul section: 2 chapters, 12 pages @500 words/page + 3 extra pages @300 words/page, followed by another 5 chapters and 58 pages @300 words/page (although that last 'chapter' is fourteen pages long and composed of multiple scenes over an eventful couple of days; we'll count it as two, since I'm going to have to decide during the typing-up stage which of the many possible points I'm going to split it at). That makes another 24,000 words in eight chapters of approx. 3000 words, which is actually a pretty even balance, despite taking immeasurably longer to write!
However, I still have to cover plot point 9 (point 8 was Christine's escape, and I've already done that) before our two young protagonists are reunited, battered and bruised and very, very glad to see one another alive and well. And in Raoul's case, considerably more adult than when they parted ;-)
If I aim to polish off the fairly eventful plot point 9 in three thousand words or so, or at least not more than a couple of chapters, that will then balance out the two 'arcs' very neatly, even if one is almost entirely static and the other covers over a thousand miles :-p
Not that anyone other than me is going to be counting -- and it's more a matter of pacing than anything else. But it gives me a guideline.