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Right, I'm sick of writing all these little pointless 'things' that add towards nothing, and knowing that some of you are writing books (FFF, Black Glove, yes?) just wondering if anyone has any tips.
I've tried before, but failed miserably, and that is now lost in history. I just want to do something, really. I love writing mini-story things, but they all just seem pointless. I mean, I've written loads of stuff, and don't really have anything to show for it.
Thing is... I have no idea where to start. Not good with planning and things so... tell me oh talented keyboard-mens.
Danke.
I've tried before, but failed miserably, and that is now lost in history. I just want to do something, really. I love writing mini-story things, but they all just seem pointless. I mean, I've written loads of stuff, and don't really have anything to show for it.
Thing is... I have no idea where to start. Not good with planning and things so... tell me oh talented keyboard-mens.
Danke.
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I've been working on a novel myself for about two months.
Just checked, and I've recently topped 30 pages (A4, 11 sized text), and 20-odd thousand words. I would have said I'm about a tenth of the way through.
Just checked, and I've recently topped 30 pages (A4, 11 sized text), and 20-odd thousand words. I would have said I'm about a tenth of the way through.
Yeah. For some reason I just generated the figure of 212 pages as being of acceptable length.
Dunno why. But yeah.
Dunno why. But yeah.
JFH wrote:
> What's it about, roughly?
It's a secret, though I've heard FFF's is about a little chap who is sent by a wizard to drop a magical ring into a fiery mountain ;-/
On the word count thing: looking at the text stats of some books on Amazon, I'd say 40 to 60,000 words = a shortish novel (around 200 pages depending on font size, lines per page, etc).
> What's it about, roughly?
It's a secret, though I've heard FFF's is about a little chap who is sent by a wizard to drop a magical ring into a fiery mountain ;-/
On the word count thing: looking at the text stats of some books on Amazon, I'd say 40 to 60,000 words = a shortish novel (around 200 pages depending on font size, lines per page, etc).
I could imagine doing maybe 44 pages of A4 at most. So that's about 80-ish in small size?
I'd need to do 3 times that to have a full length story.
I'd need to do 3 times that to have a full length story.
What's it about, roughly?
Well, I just topped 55,000, and that's 82 pages in ... er ... Pages.
It does get somewhat unwieldy over a certain point, and you can never find anything you want to.
It does get somewhat unwieldy over a certain point, and you can never find anything you want to.
44,000 words is hard to picture. What is it is sides of A4 on Word?
Up to the 44-thousand word-mark of my "novel". Currently trying to write the finale, and as always, I have too many ideas to choose from. It's difficult to pick the best one... or should I say, not pick a crap one.
Arn't they all questions on one of those annouying chain e-mails meka?
Ditto. Thanks Meks.
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