Hi writers,
I have a question. Six weeks ago I finished a first draft of a novel that took me a good three months to complete. The amount of chapters came to eighteen and it reached a lengthy 40k. Now, six weeks after, I have done a new outline for a second draft and have broken the 18 chapters into 51 instead. Now these chapters are smaller in size but still play vital to the story itself. I'm happy with it and only thought of what the reader-me would want, but the question is what would an agent be expecting when they ask for the first three chapters of a book? A lot of pages or would my few still count?
If you could help that would be great and I'd happily repay the advice :-)
A lot of agents say they want the first three chapters or the first 10 000 words, so I think they appreciate that sometimes chapters can be very short. When I get around to submitting, I'll do whichever one I think is more beneficial to me.
Hope that helps.