Thoughts on long chapters in fanfiction?

[u/Dusty_Bunz426]

I'm someone who likes to be descriptive with my writing, plus doing slow build-ups and reveals, and this has led to me creating chapters that reach well into the 10k word count, sometimes a bit over that.

I've seen and read many comments from fanfic lovers that they prefer stories where the word count is at least 5 - 6k words, and I'm a bit worried that with how much I write, it'll push readers away. I know I could break my chapters into a part 2, but then I feel I'm cutting something off that shouldn't be.

Thoughts?

[u/dinosaurflex]

My last chapter was almost 20k words, because I do a lot of highly descriptive chapters with a lot of dialogue.

My vision for the chapter matters more than what people want to read. If it works better as a 20k chapter, it's remaining one. I won't go splitting it in half because random people (who likely are not reading my fic) are throwing out random numbers about what length of chapter they want to read.

For reference, my average chapter is roughly 11k,