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.
This averages to about 98,750 words per novel. However, I understand that the length of Twilight is unusually long for a debut novel. If the word count of Twilight is disregarded, the average becomes around 88,625. Harry Potter and The Sorcererâs Stone has 17 chapters with titles, and about 4560 words per chapter.