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Topic	CE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1 03/12/20 9:35:22 PM #178:	Artisan1990 posted... I know this is subjective, and most of the time my answer would be "however long it needs to be to best tell the story", I'm wondering what word count I should aim for for the book I'm aiming to sell. I still have two publishers interested, but I'm about to hit a crucial junction in my story and I'm at 22,987 words. I was aiming for roughly 60-80k, as I've heard 70k is kind of a sweet spot for new authors. Any shorter and it's not enough really and anything too long and people won't want to read it. My longest is 123,000 and my shortest is only 22,000, so reaching word count goals isn't an issue really. Yeah if you're going for traditional publishing, and you're a first time author, you generally don't want it too long. Depends on the genre too. Anywhere from 60K to 100K, with larger genres like fantasy pushing 120K is what I've always heard. Definitely not 170K. >_>; In other news, phew! Just got done writing up the outline for my second book. Sequel to the one I'm in the process of publishing on Amazon. This is the first time I've legit outlined for anything, actually. I did write up a summary for my first book long before I wrote it, but that was mostly me kinda throwing out a bunch of different ideas, and many of them very vague. I learned a lot from my first book though, and I'm trying not to make the same mistakes. The main way to do that is to actually outline. Before I always just kept the outline in my head. This time I wrote down the whole story in a firm sequence, almost chapter by chapter. I have a word count goal (80K), so I can plan and see how I'm doing as I'm writing it, if I'm spending too much time on the beginning or something. I also outlined the main characters, and included their wants, their state of being at the beginning of the book, and their state of being at the end of the book, which shows their arc. I was a little fuzzy on a bunch of details before writing all this down, and man I'm so much more confident now. Writing down an outline really does help hammer out some of those fuzzy details. I never believed it before but I'm convinced now. --- https://imgur.com/DCjoiZ0 https://www.deviantart.com/fuee/art/spanky1-811230163 <cite>spanky1 posted [p:935601959] in CE Writing... [t:78309887]...</cite> <quote>Artisan1990 posted...</cite> <quote>I know this is subjective, and most of the time my answer would be "however long it needs to be to best tell the story", I'm wondering what word count I should aim for for the book I'm aiming to sell. I still have two publishers interested, but I'm about to hit a crucial junction in my story and I'm at 22,987 words. I was aiming for roughly 60-80k, as I've heard 70k is kind of a sweet spot for new authors. Any shorter and it's not enough really and anything too long and people won't want to read it. My longest is 123,000 and my shortest is only 22,000, so reaching word count goals isn't an issue really. </quote> Yeah if you're going for traditional publishing, and you're a first time author, you generally don't want it too long. Depends on the genre too. Anywhere from 60K to 100K, with larger genres like fantasy pushing 120K is what I've always heard. Definitely not 170K. >_>; In other news, phew! Just got done writing up the outline for my second book. Sequel to the one I'm in the process of publishing on Amazon. This is the first time I've legit outlined for anything, actually. I did write up a summary for my first book long before I wrote it, but that was mostly me kinda throwing out a bunch of different ideas, and many of them very vague. I learned a lot from my first book though, and I'm trying not to make the same mistakes. The main way to do that is to actually outline. Before I always just kept the outline in my head. This time I wrote down the whole story in a firm sequence, almost chapter by chapter. I have a word count goal (80K), so I can plan and see how I'm doing as I'm writing it, if I'm spending too much time on the beginning or something. I also outlined the main characters, and included their wants, their state of being at the beginning of the book, and their state of being at the end of the book, which shows their arc. I was a little fuzzy on a bunch of details before writing all this down, and man I'm so much more confident now. Writing down an outline really does help hammer out some of those fuzzy details. I never believed it before but I'm convinced now. --- https://imgur.com/DCjoiZ0 https://www.deviantart.com/fuee/art/spanky1-811230163</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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