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Chapter titles or numbers?
I am about to start writing a science-fiction novel, and having only ever written technical documents before, I have very little experience in the finer details of creative writing. In particular, I was wondering Do chapters always need a title or is acceptable to have Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc... with no title?

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Chapters don't need to have a title. "Chapter NN" is fine.
Or you can have only a title — that's generally when the title identifies some kind of shift, like a different time, location, or narrator/POV focus.
So you can have

Chapter 1
Chapter 6
Chapter 47

or
Location:

Vulcan, 2265

POV:

Brienne

Time:

A few hours later

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