How many words are in a novel? I'm 2000 words into a 4000 word essay, and feel like I've written War & Peace.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Allyson - Oct 09, 2004 3:50:35 pm PDT #7134 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:05:38 pm PDT #7135 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:06:31 pm PDT #7136 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
An actual novel is around 100,000, I think.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2004 4:06:45 pm PDT #7137 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:08:05 pm PDT #7138 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's what I thought, ita. Now I am rethinking.
Susan W. - Oct 09, 2004 4:09:01 pm PDT #7139 of 10001
The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home
I think you start calling it a novel rather than a novella somewhere around 40,000 to 50,000 words.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:09:03 pm PDT #7140 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2004 4:09:28 pm PDT #7141 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:11:10 pm PDT #7142 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Well, the whole point is to turn critical-mind OFF. Off off off.
I am failing in this.
Allyson - Oct 09, 2004 4:11:30 pm PDT #7143 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
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.