Wow, that's a lot. I shoot for about 1,500 words per day, but often get over 2,000. Even on my best days, though, I was just exhausted by the time...
I wish I could write that fast all the time!
I don't mind at all. Keep in mind I still work a full-time day job. My writing doesn't pay enough for me to do it full time (yet). I've also...
Tolkien did not invent the word orc. It is an Old English word for demon, and variants of it appear in various places throughout medieval...
The first was 544. The second was 480. I haven't seen the galleys of the third yet but I'm guessing it will come in around 430.
Fragments are fine if used correctly to set the proper tone for the story. Read James Ellroy's AMERICAN TABLOID or THE COLD SIX THOUSAND for a...
I wrestled with this very issue early on and decided to stick with humans and a few separate races of my own making. There are no analogs for...
I use *** to designate scene breaks. When typeset, my publisher just eliminated them unless the break came at the top or bottom of a page. In...
There are always exceptions to the rule, but as a rule, very long first novels are harder to get published than shorter ones. Dave
TNR or Garamond need to use a slightly larger font size than courier to "level" the relative size, that's true. And you're right that yo can't...
Fantasy novels often do have prologues, for whatever reason. Thrillers and other plot-driven books sometimes use them as hooks, but sometimes not....
Times New Roman, Garamond, or other serif fonts are fine. Eleven or twelve point size. Courier was used a lot in the past because (a) it was...
Dan Simmons wrote a great vampire novel called CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT in which an AIDS researcher discovers a virus in the blood of a child that...
My first novel was 160,000. The first draft of my second novel was 240,000 words -- the final published version was a slimmed down 160,000 words...
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