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APRIL 5 QUESTION - Do you remember writing your first book? What were your thoughts about a career path on writing? Where are you now and how is it working out for you? If you're at the start of the journey, what are your goals?
MY ANSWER - Depending on your word count requirements, I probably have not written a book - yet. I write short stories. The longest work I've written is about 60,000 words. However, few have seen it. It needs major work. It's a story that I'm still passionate about, but I have to find the time to do it justice. In the meantime, I need to finish the myriad of projects and obligations currently on my plate. I hope to return to and finish it one day. Maybe I'll even give another book length story a shot. Until then, I enjoy trying new things and honing my craft.
If you're struggling with your current manuscript, you might check out my article "Character Creation and the Proust Character Profile Questionnaire" over on the IWSG blog. Click the link to the right to check it out. I have found this process extremely beneficial when I am stuck.
How about you? Have you written a book? What are your future plans? Have you tried the Prouse Questionnaire?
5 comments:
That word count isn't far from my shortest book. I struggle to write long pieces as well. You should revisit it sometime.
60,000 words is in the range of a middle grade and young adult novel. Maybe you should revisit it sometime like Alex suggested.
Writing what you're passionate about is great. Take the time to do it right. Best wishes.
Schedules and "to do" lists help focus my days and I have a sense of accomplishment, though small each day, they add up.
Most of mine are less than 60k, but then technically they are listed as middle grade. But I think you'd be fine for anything not thriller, maybe a tad short for scifi, but not much.
Keep going, that's the main thing :) But don't pad for the sake of wordcount - that's what Dickens and several others did because they were paid on wordcount!
Jemima
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