A look back at the lit DD's of the first half of summer! Plus how you can find yourself on the wall of Suggested By Fame!
"I ended up doing the worst thing possible: I edited the whole thing based on one persons opinion. No, wait, thats not the really stupid part: this guy hadnt even read it. But he was an agent, and he said, 'Novels should be around 90,000 words.' So I thought: Okay, theres something to fix. And I cut 40,000 words from it.Barry also has some things to say about words-per-day goals:
Killed that book dead, I did. Not that it was ever going to be a bestseller. Or even publishable. But it was better before I messed with it."
"For the book Im working on now, Im trying something new: a maximum number of words per day."Read more at maxbarry.com:
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Also, I know the article title being a reference to a Swedish TV show might not work too well on an international site, but I think it's funny, dammit! That's good enough for me.
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I can't imagine ONLY writing 500 words a day. That's like going to pee and then stopping mid-way through. It's painful and it burns!
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@_@ I can't belive that! Novels are good not cuz of word limits, but becuase of the time and effort put into them. ^_^
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