NaNoWriMo RE: What is the difference between writing scenes and chapters?

NaNoWriMo RE: What is the difference between writing scenes and chapters?

[quote=Aisling23]I realize there can be several scenes in a chapter, but still
the arc of change can happen in both and can a long scene be called a chapter?

what most differentiates scene and chapter?

thank you
I’m writing very long scenes or chapters; I am not sure which….
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A chapter has a beginning, a middle, and an end. A scene does not.

The beginning = scene #1
The middle = scene #2
The end = scene #3

Chapters ALWAYS have a minimum of three scenes.

Chapters are made out of scenes.

Every time your character does something a new scene starts. For example:

scene #1 – your character wakes up
scene #2 – your character gets out of bed
scene #3 – your character brushes teeth
scene #4 – character walks to kitchen
scene #5 – character pours cereal in bowl
scene #6 – character eats cereal
scene #7 – character puts on shoes
scene #8 – character walks to school

and so on and so forth

These scenes, when strung together, make a chapter.

A chapter is several paragraphs and possibly many pages long.

A scene is rarely more than one or two paragraphs, or ten or twelve sentences at the most. Longer scenes are extraordinarily rare.

A novel well have hundreds, possibly thousands of scenes in it, but will only have 15 to 20 chapters.

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