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Q&A Publication: What to do about a high wordcount debut novel?

Several of my favourite authors have told me the same thing about writing for publication, don't their advice is to "write yourself the story you want to write, the way you want to write it". If it...

posted 6y ago by Ash‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:34:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/38106
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Ash‭ · 2019-12-08T09:34:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
Several of my favourite authors have told me the same thing about writing for publication, **don't** their advice is to "write yourself the story you want to write, the way you want to write it". If it's good enough to get the attention of a publisher you can fight over final styling and other compromises when that time comes. So your publishing editor may well ask you to break the book down into sections, if they feel it needs it, then and only then do you need to work out how to do that smoothly. Until that happens you should put it together the way you want it, it will be a better piece for not mucking around with it before then.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-08-05T12:36:10Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 3