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Finally mustered up the courage to join the forums, currently welcoming myself.

Theoretically, long chapters are bad because it's hard for the both you as a writer to continuously immerse the reader and reader attention span needs to be taken into account. In my experiences reading stories with short chapters, I dislike reading like six paragraphs before having to go to the...

In my opinion, writing these "post-fight clarity" scenes isn't actually that difficult. If you've properly established context or planned stuff out, it somewhat eliminates a need to backtrack and from then on, it's just a matter of how an author wants to style their dialogue to wrap up the scene...

That sounds more like hardships than full out suffering, e.g death of a loved one or bodily harm.

Suffering gives the opportunity to build character. A basic example, main character makes a mistake and suffers for it, character development happens so that they don’t do it again Meaningless suffering just makes the author look like they have a torture fetish