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When is it worth it to title chapters? Currently, my SFF thriller project does not have chapter titles. I'm not opposed to adding them, but am unsure if it will make any difference in the hunt for publishing or the reading experience.

I’ve been wondering about chapter lengths. In my current WIP, I’ve let the scenes and story dictate the length of the chapters, and consequently, some are rather long, and some are very short. The inconsistency hasn’t gone unnoticed by first readers. So, I’ve been looking at chapter lengths in...