Your readers can't digest 4000 to 6000 words chapters in one sitting?
-- What are they? Middle-school kids?
If they don't have the patience to read longer chapters, they're probably not old enough to be on this site, and shouldn't be reading your stuff to begin with.
NO.
Chopping full sized chapters into tiny bits is a
Bad Habit being picked up from reading amateur Translated works that cut chapters down to fulfill a weekly posting schedule. The actual chapters for these translated novels are far longer -- which is why those chapters are numbered: 1.1, all the way to 1.8. All 8 of those sections are
1 chapter that the translator had to work out the translation for.
Chopping chapters down to only 1000 words is a
Bad Idea.
When you only have 1000 words, you have to rush through scenes to keep the reader engaged enough to make them want to read the next one -- and
It Shows.
Examine
your own reading habits. What stories do You prefer reading? How long are their chapters? Those of us that read for pleasure regularly can devour a 5000k chapter in a matter of minutes. Being a writer, I am absolutely sure You can too.
How fast can you read 1000 words?
I can do it in under a minute.
One minute isn't anywhere near enough time for me to actually get
into a story. One minute certainly isn't long enough to keep me interested for a Full Week or longer until the next post -- not when I can devour a whole 100,000 word paperback novel in 4 hours.
Try reading a story that's been cut into tiny chapters for yourself.
- Look at what's there, and what Isn't there.
- What did the author skimp on to make those tiny chapters happen?
Most commonly description gets cut out almost entirely, but Plot tends to suffer too.
This happens because not all chapters are Exciting. When you have 5000 words per chapter, you have plenty of room to let downtime happen. You have room to expose clues and hints to develop plot points in a story. You have room to describe the fantasy or sci-fi setting.
1000 words isn't enough to develop anything in a story that isn't a dialogue scene.
Case in point; the average action scene --whether it's a smut scene or a fight scene-- runs between 5000 to 10,000 words. Full on battles with multiple cast members can go to 20,000 - 30,000 words. I can see cutting a 10,000 word scene into two chapters, but 10 separate chapters for One Scene?
No. Even if they post a chapter a week, No Reader would stand
waiting 10 weeks to finish One Scene.
I certainly
won't.