We are kind of content with this sectioning and are not necessarily looking to change it - we are only looking for any well-articulated and commonly accepted reasons to improve what we have. The sections contain more of a high-level topic as the plot develops within one location.
The chapters currently contain hugely different locations as the plot moves across the book's universe. The only problem is that early in the manuscript the chapters are much shorter, and increase in length as the text goes. The work is almost complete and I have typeset it for the time being as chapters and sections, but now we both are debating, whether our chapters look rather like parts, and our sections should be chapters. Currently it is divided into 8 chapters and each has from 2 to 10 sections with 8 being most common. The overall volume of the manuscript is around 700 pages and she is planning a sequel or several under the same title with different subtitles. It has elements of a psychological drama and bits of other styles, such as crime and action. The book is a science fiction novel, but not purely science fiction. This is mostly based on the LaTeX memoir document class which I used to typeset the book. I am working with an author, whose approach is to write her text, approximately divided by indicators where she wants the breaks to be, with the idea that later she and I would improve the breaks and decide, what will the sections become: parts, chapters, sections, etc.
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