What is the genre and word count of your work? And what audience are you primarily aiming you work towards?
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My first (and to date only) manuscript is just under 97k words after 6 rounds of editing. In terms of genre, I'll say Hard-boiled, Sci-Fi.
Beyond that, I have been writing a few short stories/novellas whose original purposes were forged in a desperate attempt to earn some cash. Now they serve the more noble purpose of helping me to increase my presence within the vast sea of fiction writers on a Wordpress site that I created recently.
As far as audiences go, I'll take anyone who will read them (or better yet give me a contract to publish).
I'm going for Young Adult audience with a bit of Urban Fantasy+ Urban Sci-Fi kind of work. Though it's much more fantasy than sci-fi, the goal is 90k. I'm at 10k at the moment in the first draft.
My two stories so far have ended up at 113k and 112k words. I aim for 90k, expect 100k, end up with nearly 120k and cut. Well - the first book worked that way but for the second I ended at around 105k and added.
Audience? Anyone who'll read it :) I get quite a lot of Sharpe fans (it's the same period) and more ladies than I might have expected, which is rather nice.
My first (and to date only) manuscript is just under 97k words after 6 rounds of editing. In terms of genre, I'll say Hard-boiled, Sci-Fi.
Beyond that, I have been writing a few short stories/novellas whose original purposes were forged in a desperate attempt to earn some cash. Now they serve the more noble purpose of helping me to increase my presence within the vast sea of fiction writers on a Wordpress site that I created recently.
As far as audiences go, I'll take anyone who will read them (or better yet give me a contract to publish).
I'm going for Young Adult audience with a bit of Urban Fantasy+ Urban Sci-Fi kind of work. Though it's much more fantasy than sci-fi, the goal is 90k. I'm at 10k at the moment in the first draft.
Historical military fiction.
My two stories so far have ended up at 113k and 112k words. I aim for 90k, expect 100k, end up with nearly 120k and cut. Well - the first book worked that way but for the second I ended at around 105k and added.
Audience? Anyone who'll read it :) I get quite a lot of Sharpe fans (it's the same period) and more ladies than I might have expected, which is rather nice.