of or relating to the outside or outer part; outer: an external surface. 2. Medicine/Medical. to be applied to the outside of a body, as a remedy: for external use only. 3. situated or being outside something; acting or coming from without: external influences.
New writers tend to assume that a chapter must be a certain set length in order to maintain the average novel length of around 80,000 â 95,000 words, but in truth, chapters can be as long or as short as you need them to be. There is no formula.
Like everything in writing, it can vary. An average novel, in most genres, is around 80,000 words. Romance novels tend to be a bit less, come novels have as few as 60,000. Some go as as high 120,000. I write a chapter until that chapter is done. Sometimes that's 5000 words, sometimes it's less.