Xander ,'Get It Done'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
So the novel you'd write in the weekend is the same novel you'd write at a leisurely pace?
No. Not so much.
The novel I wrote in the weekend is guaranteed to suck, except that I will have written it in a weekend.
The novel I write in a more leisurely fashion will not suck. God, I hope not.
The idea is that you edit the NIWITW until it doesn't suck.
An actual novel is around 100,000, I think.
The idea is that you edit the NIWITW until it doesn't suck.
Is that a primary goal? I'd think just getting the words out (sort of like The Artist's Way morning pages) would be useful in and of itself.
That's what I thought, ita. Now I am rethinking.
I think you start calling it a novel rather than a novella somewhere around 40,000 to 50,000 words.
Maybe if you tell yourself you won't edit it? That the entire thing gets a free pass, and you put it away for a few weeks when it's done?
Well, the whole point is to turn critical-mind OFF. Off off off.
I am failing in this.
I think you start calling it a novel rather than a novella somewhere around 40,000 to 50,000 words
Oh dear. I'm never going to finish this book.
I did some research. Susan's right. 40-50K is the start of a novel. Different publishing houses like different lengths.