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Old 1st April 2008, 02:33 AM   #10 (permalink)
Teresa Edgerton
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Re: Book length - Is this a worrying new trend

If you're planning on 120,000 words you have nothing to worry about ... so far as that goes.

But you generally have to turn out somewhere between 500,000 and one million words (counting other projects and/or rewrites) before you're able to produce anything that a publisher would consider buying.

Many people find time to squeeze that in during a busy lifetime. Those who don't ... well, they obviously have other priorities. A career in writing is not for everyone.
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