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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.
But let's return to the matter in hand: the length of novels... I said above that the ideal length of a novel is 80-100,000 words. Anything less than 70,000 or over 110,000 might make publishers think twice before accepting it.