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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton If you write for the love of what you are doing, first and foremost, no one can take away your payoff on that. (Although money is nice, too, and can buy you more time to write.) |
That's certainly my attitude; I love writing, and I'll continue to do it even if it never finds an audience. I suppose it'd just be nice to think that one day the work that I so love doing could put me in a more comfortable financial position, which is (I am quite sure) how the rest of you feel also. However, I certainly won't be giving up any day jobs I might have anytime soon, even if all does go well with agents and publishers. As for dividing my manuscript up into two, that certainly occured to me, yet it simply isn't possible as such an act would be very disruptive to the narrative flow (you'll need to read the book to see what I mean). Surely a twelve-hundred-plus page book is marketable? Personally, I tend to hunt down the larger books in the epic fantasy genre, for they always seem more... well, epic. In truth, I figured its size would be a selling point to audiences, or do you not agree?