How does one write a 1k chapter book?

[RepresentingWrath]

Hm, but I want to write one 1k chapters long book, without falling into this trap. Just one, just once.

Then make it grand as fuck and add a lot of extra POVs.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Your best bet is to plan your story from start to finish. If you'd like, you can also 'cheat' by manipulating the number of words per chapter so you can reach 1k chapters, and your story is non-repetitive, coherent and original. Try to make use of types of conflicts: Self vs. Self, Self vs. Nature, and Self vs. Society...you can get your ideas for themes here.

 

[Ssthat]

one character at a time

one character at a time

chapter*

 

[CupcakeNinja]

Do I sacrifice marshmallows to the writing god? Maybe spill some hot chocolate on an altar? Just how do some people concentrate on a story long enough, to write 1k chapters. And not 1k word chapters either, but 3k and more. I really want to write one 1k chapter book. But I seem to stop when I all ends are tied. Just this morning, I finished a 65k word book. I could have written more, but the ending came naturally. How to stave off the ending long enough to write 1k chapters? Oh, and I dropped two projects today, and ended up writing 15k words, of which only 11k are in books that I didn't drop. Writing 100 books is hard, when the prompt book is scoured for all ideas. And I am just at the 21st book.

easily, you just gotta include endless tournament arcs, plenty of Arrogant Young Twats to be slapped and have a plethora of sexy heroines with finely shaped butt cheeks for the MC to stick his tongue between in front of their fiances

 

[CapitaoCaverna]

Badly, you could stretch a book into 1k chapters, but it would be terrible.

What does happen is that the story itself can have 1k chapters, but it's made of various books focusing on different things and you don't even notice because of it's serialized nature.

I think that the most obvious ways is to make it a constant growth story, where one will grow stronger and face new threats constantly, like those Xianxia novels or system novels with levels.

Another way is to focus on a villain or mystery over and over again, every villain or mystery can be different, with vastly different powers, goals and reasons for acting making the story feel new, and the MC grows stronger between villains. Allowing every new villain to be more powerful, and dangerous.

The important thing to make a good story as long as this is to have one single plot, and then pepper it with many others inside it, each one good enough to be called a main plot.

In a Xianxia the bigger plot is the story of a cultivator's road to immortality, but it's filled with villains of the week, character growth, exploration and everything else (there are good Xianxia out there, not everything is a repetitive succession of young masters)

In short, you can have a 1k chapter story, but a 1k chapter book is a terrible idea.

Also, you could do something like western comic books, where the story of Superman can be stretched tremendously and endlessly, but it will still be separated into books

 

[Ai-chan]

Write a chapter that tells a story. Then add dialogues, details and descriptions. Flesh out your descriptions. Before you know it, your story is already past 1k words. If it's less than 700 words, that means you haven't added details or description.

Oh wait, Ai-chan misunderstood the question. Moving on.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Rinse and repeat. That, or make your story grow so out of bounds that it won't be the same story that you've started with by the end

 

[AnonUnlimited]

Don’t, just don’t do it. I tried to do it for fun, you will get bored of the story.

The length of a story doesn’t matter, but if you want to write something good you need to establish the expansive background first before starting.

Even then, those who came to read your book at the beginning may not like what it becomes in the end.

 

[melchi]

I find that a couple of the 1000+ chapters advance the plot at a snails pace. Take the mech touch for example. I found that I could skip entire chapters and not really be missing much. There are spiritual crafting mini arcs where he has thought ideas for a totem to oversee the series of a certain model. Ves would invent a monster/human/spirit animal and have them fight it out in his mind space to create some superior x-factor for the mech and give it it's 'Glow'. These mini arcs can go from 2-5 chapters and are nothing more than padding IMO. I found I could just skip them and go to where the actual plot continues and not seem confused.

Another way he drags it out is to just repeat the same stuff but at a higher tier. Ves starts out with 3rd class mechs. 2nd class mechs can defeat a huge number of 3rd class mechs because they have higher order exotics that allow the mechs to just shrug off 3rd class mechs attacks for the most part. So, a lot of the plot devices can just be repeated on the next tier.

Like Trashyhuman says, rinse and repeat. The details can be different but the little arcs are more or less the same kind of setup as ones done 100 chapters back.

 

[georgelee5786]

To learn this secret, you must ask the author of One Piece for he alone has mastered the art.
Also you could try a story with multiple subplots, but not a huge, overarching plot.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

To learn this secret, you must ask the author of One Piece for he alone has mastered the art.

 

[DWinchester]

A series of escalating and connected smaller challenges that lead to larger ones that afford the MC more friends, enemies, and plots. Each of these will come with their own complications which will require more chapters to resolve.

One of my stories, Letter of the Law, will reach its first ending at around chapter 105. That covers 5 years, and focuses on one character. If anyone was actually reading it (I have 3 regular readers) then the next arc is another 50 chapters, and the arc after that (which would be the end of the story in this timeline) would be another 50... so only about 200 chapters.

A 1000 would be tough. I think that Tenebroum will only last 70-90 chapters.

 

[georgelee5786]

Wait, what does that mean? Is one piece's author female? Or did someone else I dont remember breach 1k chapters for a book series?

 

[Nekroz]

Don't, not unless you really want to. And I mean really, really want to.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Wait, what does that mean? Is one piece's author female? Or did someone else I dont remember breach 1k chapters for a book series?

It means that even if we don't include manga that isn't that well-known, there are Hajime no Ippo, Baki, JoJo, and Detective Conan. All of those are over 1000+ chapters. From what I know, the only exception is perhaps JoJo. Although it's long, different arcs have different MCs.

 

[georgelee5786]

KIt means that even if we don't include manga that isn't that well-known, there are Hajime no Ippo, Baki, JoJo, and Detective Conan. All of those are over 1000+ chapters. From what I know, the only exception is perhaps JoJo. Although it's long, different arcs have different MCs.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Just write and it will happen eventually.

 

[lambenttyto]

Your question is confusing. Are you asking about writing a book that has chapters of a thousand words, and how to prolong the length of said book to say, a hundred thousand words or so?

This is about plot, not length of chapter. Length of chapter is completely arbitrary and doesn't signify the ending of conflict based on length. Shorter chapters often end before the conflict is resolved, leaving cliffhangers which propels the reader forward. I write a LOT of short chapter books.

It's about not resolving the main conflicts too soon if you want to extend length. Say you have a conflict arc. Imagine it as a hill in your mind. Now, are you going to cut that hill into three pieces (say, three ten thousand-word chapters) or will you cut it into thirty pieces? Will you leave it as one piece? Imagine the chapters are little dividing lines, but the conflict arc does not change in size or scope. The only think that changes is where you decide to break the text and add a scene break or a chapter break.

Isn't a book doomed to failure if you look at it from the angle of how many chapters you can or want to pump out instead of what the story should be? Honest question.

Absolutely not. This is an essential part of writing. It's "pacing" on a scene/chapter level. It's an advanced tool.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Don't procreate.

 

[J_Chemist]

So there are two questions here, I think? The 1k Word Per Chapter question, and the 1k Chapter for the Book question?

For 1k Words per Chapter, you just need to increase your wordplay, increase the scope of your chapters, and enhance your writing ability in general to sustain the larger chapters. Instead of 2-4 sentences per paragraph, bring it up to 5-7. Think of it like painting a picture. If your chapters are sub-1k, you're probably pretty low when it comes to the color and size of your "image". Up that number and really add in the nitty gritty, but don't be too repetitive or you'll drown your reader in nonsense that they'll skip.

For the 1k Chapters per Book you need two things; a lot of shit to do and to do it slowly without burning out yourself or your readers. Try not to repeat the same shit over and over if you can help it. Add spice and be creative with your plot development. Implement a large cast of characters that you can include in the story and move through them evenly as the Main Cast progresses. Take your time with each event and really bring out the small, subtle details of everything. Larger stories are a grind for both parties (author and reader) but it doesn't have to be a slog.

The idea is to progress slowly but not boringly. It'll take practice and some adjusting if you aren't used to it or if you find yourself running out of ideas too fast.