Thanks ChickenFreak, I wasn't aware that would be an issue. I thought I'd be able to print one copy for myself and then seek a publisher.
Thanks for your help again Edward. :D The book is currently around 160 standard book pages. I could make it longer fairly easily. As it's my...
Thank you Edward and shadowwalker for your replies. :) You've both taught me some valuable things, and for that I thank you both. I will...
As a complete fledgling in this area... is there any good resource to use to get to grips with it all? I know next to no details about either...
Hey everyone, I'll be finishing a short book soon, so I'm beginning to think about other issues, such as the cover. My understanding is that if...
I tend to make every chapter around 3,000 words. I figure that would make it roughly ten pages per chapter, which feels like a good number.
Thank you Sunrise Falcon. I absolutely agree that reading is a great way to improve writing, and I shall have to do more of it. I'm glad to know...
Hey everyone, I'm in the unusual position, perhaps, of enjoying writing whilst having few books of my own. Only now am I going through my...
Leaka, if you wanted someone here to read it for you and give thoughts, I'd be more than happy to help you out. Even the first few chapters or...
"A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect." - Norton Juster, though it comes from one of his...
I would somewhat disagree and say proper editing can take stylistic choices into consideration. For example some writers use 'comma splices' or...
I absolutely agree with this. I deleted a chapter once and I wish I'd kept it, because I know it would have been of use... now at least!
Separate names with a comma.