JUST WRITE!

When I wrote my first two novels I had no idea about pages/word count. I just wrote the story I needed to tell. Because of that I was able to convey the emotions and tell the story thoroughly. Now, that I know more about what goes into making a book publish ready, my eyes constantly go to the page number. I feel like I am in a crunch to complete the story in a a certain amount of pages. smh.... I have to get out of my own head and just allow the story to play out in order to not stifle the the story line and the reality around my characters. Dont let page count and word count over rule the integrity of your work as a whole. JUST WRITE THE STORY! This is some advice I needed for myself and decided to share. Anyway, I'm out for now, I have a story to tell..

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Published on January 15, 2012 22:34
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message 1: by Ken (new)
Jan 29, 2012 10:19AM

Ken Robinson Very well said. When I completed my first book last year the ebook was published first. But when I got ready to go to print I had no idea that the long-winded nature of my writing would leaded to a book that would be over 500 pages once formatted to the proper size, font appearance etc. But after some tweaking I was able to work it down to 420 pages. Still a large amount of pages but at least not quite as enormous. Now in writing my follow-up novel I am much more cognizant of that and paying far more attention to the page count.


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