How to write a novel

[andrewducker]

I am led to believe that this process also applies to PhDs

Via neil-gaiman, who got it from Nic Alderton, who also explains How to write a Great Novel

Comments

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I recently talked with a publisher of a multi-author SF series, and they want 80,000 as a maximum length for their novels.

A lot of self-publishing people who are doing ebook-only stuff are going for shorter novels, too. Looking at the books Amanda Hocking has put on Smashwords (which gives word counts - I chose Hocking because she is inordinately popular), one is about 55,000 words, one is 62,000, and five range from 79,000 to 98,000. So 80,000 seems about reasonable.