I think one of the first questions new writers ask themselves is: how long should my book be?The easy answer is: however long you want it to be!Believe it or not, there are not hard and fast rules to writing a novel. There is no set number of chapters, pages, or words you novel has to be. I remember my novel writing professor in community college give us an example as a short chapter by William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. It reads "My mother is a fish". That's it. That's the entire chapter....
11.27.2023
11.14.2023
So Far, So Good...
It's been two weeks since I started the first draft of my first novel and I feel...pretty good. I've completed 4 chapters out of my plotted 46 (subject to change). Already I can tell that no matter how much world building I did before, I am still world building as I write. Sometimes it's little things like background events that play no role in the main story, but add depth to characters or new plants and creatures my characters encounter. Other times, its quick interactions with unnamed...
11.01.2023
Let's Get Started
Well, the day is finally here!After weeks and weeks of world building, character creating, plotting, and more plotting, I am finally ready to sit down and start writing my first novel. And is it going to be a doozy.Think Tolkien meets Martin.There's a fellowship, magical creatures, a (by Mr. Sanderson's definition) hard magic system, violent, sex, and yes, dragons. Multiple different types of dragons too. I've did a lot of homework to put my own twist on the genres and the tropes that...