That's what I thought, ita. Now I am rethinking.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:08:05 pm PDT #7138 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Susan W. - Oct 09, 2004 4:09:01 pm PDT #7139 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:12:10 pm PDT #7144 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I did some research. Susan's right. 40-50K is the start of a novel. Different publishing houses like different lengths.
Allyson - Oct 09, 2004 4:15:31 pm PDT #7145 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
It occurs to me that I just don't have that much to say.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2004 4:17:03 pm PDT #7146 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Relax. If it isn't a novel, it may be a short story. And novel lengths are not the same as book lengths anyway.
Beverly - Oct 09, 2004 5:04:03 pm PDT #7147 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Allyson, you're not writing a novel. You're writing a collection of essays, memoirs, possibly interviews or at least recalled and/or reconstructed conversations, anecdotes, and essays to serve as intros, outros, and connecting links between them. You don't have to do 100,000 words at one go.
And what Betsy said is right, a nonfiction book doesn't have to be as many words as a novel. Plus, you can use photos (of the Variety ad! Of Wash's cockpit! Of Tim's beagles!), which will use up some page space.
It'll be good.