Heh. I dare you to use it as a summary. "Stuff happens."
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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esse - Dec 30, 2002 3:19:01 am PST #2295 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 9:45:39 am PST #2296 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
It's a brilliant story. And, goodness, Fay, you should write your own novel, and sell it, and become terribly rich.
Theodosia - Dec 30, 2002 9:52:05 am PST #2297 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
IIRC, 45K would still be in novella territory, 'novel' starts (as far as classification for Hugo/Nebula purposes) at 50K, though of course novellas may be sold as novels in slim volumes depending on the market/what the publisher thinks they can get away with. Most SF novels used to run 60K-75K, though currently the market seems to like 80-100K because it's thicker and readers ("consumers") like more heft for their $$$.
45K would be right on target for a Young Adult novel, the theory being that kids like shorter novels because they have less attention-span, which if you consider the popularity of Harry Potter seems pretty dubious.
Fay - Dec 30, 2002 9:54:11 am PST #2298 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
And, goodness, Fay, you should write your own novel, and sell it, and become terribly rich.
Yes. Yes, I absolutely concur. Now all I need is a plot....
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 30, 2002 9:55:22 am PST #2299 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Theodosia, is that in plain text or as a word document? I only ask because I spend nearly as much time trying to work out how long a novel length is as I actually do typing, and this kind of number might help me stop that.
Fay - Dec 30, 2002 9:58:13 am PST #2300 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Theodosia, is that in plain text or as a word document?
....I don't understand what difference it would make.
t /stupid
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 30, 2002 10:01:15 am PST #2301 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I don't understand what difference it would make.
Well, for some reason Word files are much larger than plain .txt ones: my Spike-Giles-sumt-free-gay-vampire epic is 505KB in plain text, but 783KB in a Word file.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2002 10:02:26 am PST #2302 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Word adds lots of stuff -- versioning, formatting, user info -- whether or not it actually looks flashy onscreen. So the files will always be larger than a text file.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 30, 2002 10:03:51 am PST #2303 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
And ita knows why there's a difference. But this is why there's a question about it.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 10:05:21 am PST #2304 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Not K as in file size kilobytes.
K as in thousands of words.
Only ficcers and other online writers count it by file size-- because it's only relevant to the Internet, because then you have to worry about how large the file is you're downloading. Wordcount is a fair universial standard in actual publishing.