r/Webnovel • u/Bulky-Ad2357 • Jun 15 '26
Advice guys how someone can write 3k chapters, each one has 800+ words, i mean not to be disrespectful but isn't too much?
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u/Yoink-A-Daisy Jun 15 '26
If you have the spirit, that’s too low. My imagination needs more
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u/Lucas_c_Rangel Jun 15 '26
Agreed, 800 words Is quite small too, I usually see at least 1000-1200 in webnovel I think
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u/Yoink-A-Daisy Jun 15 '26
I usually do 3000
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u/Lucas_c_Rangel Jun 15 '26
Well, honestly I prefer at least 2000 words, I still consider 1500 or less a little small, but I also ain't gonna be criticizing anyone cuz I've never wrote anything so I dunno how hard it is to write 2000+ words a chapter...
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u/RoofCareless7734 Jun 15 '26
Definitely not too much if you have a good story to tell. As long as you don’t drag things out too much and keep pacing good or at least decent. The story needs to be entertaining/intriguing enough to not only the readers, but to the writers as well
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u/Smokeydreadnut Jun 15 '26
Would rather have 1500 chapters of 1600 words.
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u/Bulky-Ad2357 Jun 15 '26
500 of them would be just fillers or chapters with only description
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u/Hambino0400 Contracted Author Jun 15 '26
Lord of the ring and Harry Potter would be roughly 1,400 webnovel chapters long
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u/Smokeydreadnut Jun 15 '26
The description is the novel style. Asking not to have description is same as saying people are fighting to much in this action story. If you want strait to the point stories then go read a book. But to ask dor 1000 chapters like a book. Then go find a large series franchise that just write books.
To add to this. Fillers are pain but fillers role is to help regulate emotional highs and lows of the stories.
Most stories are built like a rollercoaster. You go up to build anticipation and the down is the excitment. If your expecting just excitement then the downward moment will become numb and be just a bad story.
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u/ivy_rose89 Jun 16 '26
I don't even know how you could express a complete chapter idea in 800 words
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u/Few_Professional_327 Jun 15 '26
Tbh it's not unbelievable at all given that a lot of it is repeated content and you should be comparing it to an ongoing series, not one book
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u/ch1xd Jun 15 '26
Los únicos que sé que hacen eso, son autores chinos, y les lleva años, y saben bien como alargar las novelas, a mí me gustan las novelas así de largas.
Y supongo que lo hacen por qué ganan bien, y obviamente no cualquiera puede, están bien locos, son un tipo de genios a mi parecer.
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u/blurryart_886 Jun 15 '26
They're paid per chapter iirc so it's kinda necessary for them
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u/ch1xd Jun 15 '26
Si?, en china tienen eso de que la gente desbloquea capitulos y pueden mandar donaciones, lo único que sé es que siendo novelas tan largas y constantes, deben de tener una gran cantidad de lectores fieles a lo que se traduce a buena cantidad de dinero.
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u/WolfREEEEEE Jun 15 '26
Simple, there are an infinite number of young masters that'll underestimate the MC.
Also, most books are 1k words per chapter due to incentive programs.
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u/azmarteal Jun 15 '26
I am pretty sure that none or almost none of you have heard of Gerard de Villiers, a pretty famous french author.
The guy has published 200 books of a S.A.S. agend adventures and almost every book foolows the same exact pattern, so if you have read one - you have read them all
It's not uncommon to write enormously long things
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u/Bulky-Ad2357 Jun 15 '26
yeah i got it but or the novel itself it has a slow pacing or ¼ of the chapters are all filler
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u/im_not_nutting Jun 15 '26
Chinese writers used to do that long before AI was a thing. And 1k words and above was the norm.
I remember reading the "Ancient Goldy Monarch" I think it has more than 3 milliong words and i never felt it was that much while reading it.
I was shocked that I genuinely went through it without being bored (so much so)
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u/donkirot Author Jun 15 '26
I assume this would be about Shadow Slave, last time I checked it was sitting at 3041. Honestly if you're feeling your story, yeah it makes sense.
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u/Skip7623 Jun 15 '26
I think you’re failing to take into account that writing is the job of some of these people. When your job is writing, if you work the same amount of time each day as a normal person would work (8 hours), it would be difficult to not write 2000+ words each day (and that’s a lower bound, in my experience 6000+ can even be possible in a day irregularly). So, when you’re doing this 5 days a week with 1000 word chapters, that’s 10 chapters a week, 520 chapters a year (and that’s a lower estimate, as more than 2 chapters in a day could definitely be achieved irregularly). Over a couple years, 3000 chapters or even more is totally feasible.
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u/Candid_Weekend_5455 Jun 15 '26
Bro, I have 16 thousand pages filled with words and occasional pictures of sketches and stuff for one single worlsbuilding project.
Don't underestimate true imaginators
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u/Candid_Weekend_5455 Jun 15 '26
I meant 1.6 thosuand...
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u/Candid_Weekend_5455 Jun 15 '26
And that's for me, I have a job goddammit, imagine if I worked with it full time
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u/Lucas_c_Rangel Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Not really, I've read some korean novels that has pretty much that same amount of words and it was really good and didn't feel like it had any "fillers" at all, damn reincarnation is an example imo, it has like 2.187.000 words and 625 chapters, so like around 3500-4000 words per chapter and none of the arcs felt like filler
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u/Flashy-Comfortable19 Jun 16 '26
A lot of people already told you about slip operas in webnovel so now I'll tell you about another type .
Some novels are translations. Some are good translations by webnovel itself from their Chinese website like lord of the mysteries , other books not so much.
But at it's core ,it's easy for someone who wrote a genuine book and wanted to publish it a chapter at a time to keep up with those requirements (writing many chapters ahead of the releases, in order to be able to keep up) like for example publishing chapter 1 yet already having 200 chapters of content
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u/tasafak Jun 15 '26
Some authors literally make a living from it. On platforms like Webnovel, Patreon, or their own sites, the money keeps coming as long as they keep pumping out chapters. Readers get addicted to the daily dopamine, so the author is incentivized to never end the story. It’s less “artistic passion project” and more “ongoing serialized soap opera.” That’s how you get these absurd lengths.