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Can I write a novel without putting chapters in it?



By Wendy C Allen

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Can I write a novel without putting chapters in it?

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Can I write a novel without putting chapters in it?

Over on The Writer’s Nook I found this question asked: 

Can I write a novel without putting chapters in it?

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To which the highest voted as the most correct answer stats: 

"You can, but I wouldn't recommend it. Readers need organizational structures that are engaging. ... No reader would be venture past the first page or two because it would make no sense."

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It is illogical that this is the highest voted "correct" answer, LOL! Just goes to show what social media users will vote for! I wonder how many of those voters are book readers?

My 2nd highest selling novel (The Night of The Screaming Unicorn), is 157k words long (over 500 pages in paperback) published in 2014, has sold over a million copies, and is written as one long monologue stream of consciousness thought from the main character as he sits in a single room of a single scene. In other words, there are not only no chapters, there are no scene changes either.

I have 138 novels published (150k to 175k words each) and MOST do not have chapters at all, while the ones that do have 10 or fewer chapters, meaning each chapter is well over 20k words long.

I have 423 novellas published. Between 20k words to 75k words each. NONE has chapters. Not one.

The entire series in total, has sold over ten MILLION copies (All titles combined).

That's over 500 books each 20k to 175k words, with no chapters and perfectly able to sell TEN MILLION copies without chapters causing readers to not come back for more.

I am baffled as to why so many responses are telling this person that no one would read a novel without chapters.

Clearly this is untrue as I could not have sold a million copies of a very long chapterless novel is no one enjoyed reading it and was recommending their friends read it, now could I?

And as other commenter pointed out there are plenty of popular novels without chapters.

People who enjoy reading, enjoy good stories, about well crafted characters, and when it comes right down to it, most readers don’t give a rat’s ass about things like spelling, grammar, or formating (chapter breaks are formatting not grammar, I don’t know why one answer here calls it a part of grammar).

Create characters readers love, write a good story about those characters. That’s all readers really want.

Readers want to have a good time, enjoying a good story, with fun characters. Chapters are unnecessary curtains to decorate the windows of the story, only this and nothing more.

There are novels with chapters and novels without chapters.

Do what is best for the story in question. Neither way is more right or more wrong then the other. Both have their uses.

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Other Websites You Might Enjoy:

https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/976/examples-for-books-that-dont-use-traditional-chapters

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https://www.mightyauthor.com/can-i-write-a-book-without-chapters/

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https://bookriot.com/chapterless-books/

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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/94706.Books_with_no_labeled_chapters

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https://www.writingforums.org/threads/a-novel-without-chapters.62553/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/5giu9e/how_do_you_feel_about_novels_without_chapters/

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https://bookendsliterary.com/writing-without-chapters/

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https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/8444/what-is-the-term-for-a-novel-that-has-no-chapters-or-paragraphs

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https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/6gw1bs/novels_without_chapter_numbers_does_that_bother/

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Can I write a novel without putting chapters in it?





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Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).

NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.

ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.

In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters.  I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.

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