Sounds interesting. I’ll have to think about it. I have a degree in BS so there’s that.
Needs more hitting it
It’s not autobiographical, is it?
Interesting. Will ponder.
Did you go with “It was a Stark and nightie dorm” as an opening?
Here’s a suggestion, include lots of illustrations.
You can always look to Herman Melville for inspiration.
Adjectives can be our friends, especially when trying to up the word count. There are specific e-books that tell hour to detail hair for example. Emotions, skin, etc.
Writing as though it were a film is helpful too.
My first book, of which no one has read, features my two-headed turtle. I wrote it in like five minutes minutes. I had the outline and just needed to flesh it out. The second book took longer and the third book in the trilogy is ten years and counting....
good luck
It’s not the word COUNT that matters - it’s the word USE
If you can tell your story in 70,000 words, then you’ve told your story
My girlfriend finished a sci-fi novel last year and it’s with her editor/publisher now (so I have no idea what the published word count will be...) - I helped her with spacecraft mechanics and Mars geography details, but I wouldn’t be much help with the ‘storytelling’ I don’t think...
That is not a slam by the way.
Most of us have a hard time cutting our work down. That is why we have editors and alpha readers who tell us to "just get to the point".
They (who ever They are) that everyone has a book inside them. Maybe yours is a series of short stories. And that is good too. Lots of writers start with short stories.
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Are you sure your word count goal should be what is typical? Some of us don’t even think about word count. Got a story to tell, tell it, and when it’s told, you stop.
Just finished my 3rd novel and starting my 4th. Writing is easy. It’s the editing, agent/publisher search, marketing & distribution that the hard part.... 🤣
Write it as fast as possible. Then rewrite it and rewrite the rewrite. The magic happens during the editing....
If you’re doing fiction, you’ll need to pack LESS info into a few sentences.
It’s terribly hard to change style. I wrote novel style for years happily enough and then I took a course in screenplay writing. Wrote 2 that were agented by John Grisham’s NYC agent and subbed to Writers&Artists in Hollywood. At the end of 2 years they didn’t sell and the agent said she’d read a book from me if I sent one. I COULDN’T WRITE IT! My style had been so warped by those screenplays that I couldn’t do the needed style change and I let the opportunity pass.
There are writing consultants who will read for you for a reasonable price and give you detailed comments on what you need to do to be marketable. Then you need to take the time to internalize what they say because changing from a beloved style is so very difficult to do.
Wishing you well and success.
It was once said of writing...ya sit at the typewriter, open your veins, and let it all flow out.
Writing a book, unless it is nonfiction, is A LOT OF CEREBRAL WRESTLING!!
Just e-mail me the ‘frisky bits’ for review. ;)
Proud of you for at least TRYING to write a novel. I know I have a Cookbook or a Gardening Book in me - just too lazy to let it out my fingertips. ;)
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