Chapter Titles In a Novel?

[Banespawn]

Does anyone do epigraphs? I like reading them, and seems like a neat a way to expand lore and would building without being overly expository.

Yes. My Blood Oath story uses epigraphs.

There are two in-world philosophy books and the epigraphs are quotes from the philosophers. Each quote is meant to say something poignant that relates to the chapter.

 

[JT Woody]

I've started reading a novel that is broken up in a way that i find myself actually liking:

it has a Part I page....
followed by a chapter number and title
and each section/scene in the chapter are numbered.

Example:
Part 1

Chapter 1: TITLE​

1​

2​

3​

Chapter 2: TITLE​

1​

2​

​

In my WIP, i do have it broken up into 3 parts. and rather than number the scenes within the chapter, i just use "#" as scene breaks. but now im wondering how it would look if i did something like the above?

Does anyone do epigraphs? I like reading them, and seems like a neat a way to expand lore and would building without being overly expository.

I use them in one of my projects. they dont seem right for my other 2. There was a book that used them way too much and it was kind of distracting. before each chapter, it would give sort of a short Aesop-esque fable right before picking up where the last chapter left off. i skipped a couple of them because i wanted to read what happened next in the main story. i felt like it broke up the flow of the story having them before EVERY chapter. but if they are used sparingly.... and are short? i dont mind reading them