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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
Darkshore:
I'm at around 15k with my current book. College and work caused me to have to stop writing for months... I feel like the story will be wrapped up at like 60k though. Hopefully I can make it work. I'd hate to try and sell this as a novella.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Darwinist on May 24, 2012, 01:35:43 PM ---I'll give it another pass, possibly adding in another subplot I've been sitting on for a potential sequel. I dunno, what's really the target for novels these days? I wanna say I heard it was 80k once. I know Nanowrimo aims for 50k and that's only supposed to be a stop gap to something larger.
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All depends on the kind of book you're writing. For fantasy, it depends on the subgenre. An urban fantasy is generally around 80-100k. Anne Sowards said the first Ilona Andrews novel was 90k and after that they're around 100k. Another author of hers, Myke Cole, had his first book come in around 125-130k, and the second is supposed to be around 100k. Epic fantasy will be a lot longer, usually around 250-300k. Some of the tomes come in even higher, like Martin's books. I believe Dance with Dragons was somewhere around 500k.
cenwolfgirl:
how?
do you lot not sleep or some thing?
:(
by the way very well done
Lord Rae:
I might have missed my calling as a short story author... I'm constantly fighting the urge to wrap everything up in like 10 pages.
cenwolfgirl:
wow rely i normaly get to about 20,000 words and then hit the stories ending first draft
i then have to go back and see what i have mist (descriptions little things that could be added to make it better)
it then ends up being a bit longer but if i get to 30K with the story its a reasnable length for me
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