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 22 to 23 chapters per novel, with the average chapter length around 4,280 words. For information on word counts in the entire Harry Potter Series, Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games trilogy, grab a copy of my free e-book: