so that's what they meant...

[tinpra]

I have to write an additional 50 - 70k words to make my book "presentable" to a literary agent1. I don't remember if I mentioned this before to the "general public," although I know I've told random individuals during chat. So. So what I'm doing is going through the whole thing, again, and trying to see where I can just, y'know, casually toss in a couple thousand more words. Basically I'm doing a heck of a lot of story filling and world building. Having to do this made me realize that my story has good bones (I hope!) but probably doesn't have enough meat on it. It also made me realize this is probably an outworking of writing so much fanfic. You don't have to do world-building with a lot of fanfiction and, as with anything, when you get out of the habit you "forget" how to do it. Even the section of the book that I think is a monster is probably more bones than meat. Really, really tall bones... Anywho, so I'll be posting regular word count meter-y things.

Now I understand why the writers I follow like rj_anderson and marthawells will have posts that say something like "I've got 18,000/30,000 left to go, gang." *nods*

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1. Information for the approximate length a novel should be before being queried to a literary agent found at Agent Query, a site regularly mentioned on the blogs of by well known lit agents such as Nathan Bransford.

Comments

[lieueitak.livejournal.com]

Are you fake nanoing without me?! HOW DARE YOU. :-p

It feels like you've been working on this for so long, lol. Good luck. :)

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

I totally mentioned it to you :P You wished me luck and gave me good advice.

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

[klcthebookworm.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you!