Thanks! It will go on the list, you can be assured, ahead of all the other fanfic I'm masterfully avoiding writing at the moment while trying to knuckle down to the "real stuff"...
I've been trying to do some research re length; it's a bit strange, but on the one hand the smart money seems to say that first-time authors can forget trying to sell anything that's 100,000+ words long. Fair enough. But on the other hand, it seems that in today's market, "fantasy" novels (at least, ones of the swords and horses and wizardy types variety) are expected to be LOOONNNG. So, does about 90,000 words sound like a decent length? That sounds like a lot, but the ridiculously involved story in my head might not fit into that... O.o
(Personally, I think most fantasy novels are much too long, probably out of some misguided effort to ape Lord of the Rings, which at least has enough going on to justify its epic length. I seem to be alone in this opinion; most fantasy readers seem to think that if it's less than about three inches thick, they're not getting value for money... And of course, most of them these days tend not to stop at just one doorstop...they multiply...)
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Date: 2010-04-14 10:42 pm (UTC)I've been trying to do some research re length; it's a bit strange, but on the one hand the smart money seems to say that first-time authors can forget trying to sell anything that's 100,000+ words long. Fair enough. But on the other hand, it seems that in today's market, "fantasy" novels (at least, ones of the swords and horses and wizardy types variety) are expected to be LOOONNNG. So, does about 90,000 words sound like a decent length? That sounds like a lot, but the ridiculously involved story in my head might not fit into that... O.o
(Personally, I think most fantasy novels are much too long, probably out of some misguided effort to ape Lord of the Rings, which at least has enough going on to justify its epic length. I seem to be alone in this opinion; most fantasy readers seem to think that if it's less than about three inches thick, they're not getting value for money... And of course, most of them these days tend not to stop at just one doorstop...they multiply...)