I know this answer will vary greatly depending on the style of the writer and the story being told, but I'd just like to know basic word count for...
What does the forum think is the ideal word count range for a short story? What is too much?
I think I might've finally figured out why I have such a problem with trying to lower the word count in my manuscript. It's because it takes place...
I average about 120-140k words but recently I heard 90k is the new preferred word count. I've seen and read long books that I just can't put down...
Hello, Peasants! I, Count James II of House Black, Protector of the Great Lakes, Herald of the holy order of Tim Horton's knights, am here to...
What would be a safe word limit per chapter?
So, my book's genre is YA fiction. For every chapter I aim to write at least 2,000 words, but I usually go over that at least a few hundred words....
So my current project is sitting at 60k words; I try to keep my novels around the 100k mark, but it isn't hard and fast; I won't go below 80k...
I've been dancing around a topic whenever I work on my query letter -- my audience. I know that's a really bad sign. But, it's the truth....
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