The FAST was developed in the UK in 1998 by a group of stroke physicians, ambulance personnel, and an emergency room physician and was designed to be an integral part of a training package for ambulance staff.
âAnonymous. There are no hard-and-fast rules on how long or short a chapter needs to be. It could be three pages. It could be 22. It could be 40. You shouldnât set manuscript guidelines for yourself on chapter length.
Four hundred pages is about a hundred thousand words. By the way, the first page of a chapter is estimated to have 250 words, and partial pages other than the first page are estimated to have 125 words. Section breaks (the visual breaks between the scenes in your story) are indicated using a centered number sign (#).