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ctg · 1st April 2008, 02:27 AM

LOL, and I thought I was in trouble.

*serves a pint of extra cold beer to TheEndIsNigh*

It's much hard then churning out your best, as you have to meet up with the standards that others had set for you. Why don't you just simply expand your story and don't make it stop after you have filled three books, say 140 000 each. If you get those published, the publisher at some point might bring out the omnibus version and then you can have your 420 000 word or 1050 page long book.

Seriously, man, have a bottle of whisky and think it over. The world isn't going to end any time soon, and you are not going to be in grave before you have done your book, unless you want to skip that part and move on to do something else.

Look at the Mister Banks, poor fellow had to struggle for a decade before he was published at some poor year of 1984, when people still bought 150 page long books. Today standards are what they are, and in Britain, the game is tougher then anywhere else, because of these literary geniuses.

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ctg weaver of the unseen Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 669	Re: Book length - Is this a worrying new trend LOL, and I thought I was in trouble. serves a pint of extra cold beer to TheEndIsNigh It's much hard then churning out your best, as you have to meet up with the standards that others had set for you. Why don't you just simply expand your story and don't make it stop after you have filled three books, say 140 000 each. If you get those published, the publisher at some point might bring out the omnibus version and then you can have your 420 000 word or 1050 page long book. Seriously, man, have a bottle of whisky and think it over. The world isn't going to end any time soon, and you are not going to be in grave before you have done your book, unless you want to skip that part and move on to do something else. Look at the Mister Banks, poor fellow had to struggle for a decade before he was published at some poor year of 1984, when people still bought 150 page long books. Today standards are what they are, and in Britain, the game is tougher then anywhere else, because of these literary geniuses.