wow cool! what sort of project are you working on?
Oh, thanks for asking. I have several short stories and three novellas just waiting to be edited, polished and put in envelopes and sent to a appropriate market. (Making excuses now) I've just been very busy with the fine art side of things, arranging for shows, exhibiting, and doing commissions (in the real world).
wow that's pretty cool! Haha. I'm still in the seventh or eighth rewrite of my first manuscript (which is about 90,000 words) and trying to make it as succinct as possible. What genres do you write in?
Excellent. 100,000 is the average length of for a novel these days, but keep polishing and tightening. I hope you're proud of yourself for sustaining the momentum and getting this far.
I am a humour writer. (A natural style for a Canadian.) I often write near future sci-fi or 'slipstream'. Slipstream is a genre in which there is a lot of reality and a present day setting, but things are kind of 'strange'.
I am a humour writer. (A natural style for a Canadian.) I often write near future sci-fi or 'slipstream'. Slipstream is a genre in which there is a lot of reality and a present day setting, but things are kind of 'strange'.
^ That. Ahh, our stereotypical Canadian-ness.
I'm guessing slipstream is kind of like Scott Westerfeld, Uglies series and Leviathan? Kind of? I find near future sci-fi interesting too, since it's generally more realistic than aliens and the sun exploding. = =
However, I read that most YA novels should be 50,000 - 60,000 because they're meant to entice teenagers ORZ
I'm guessing slipstream is kind of like Scott Westerfeld, Uglies series and Leviathan? Kind of? I find near future sci-fi interesting too, since it's generally more realistic than aliens and the sun exploding. = =
However, I read that most YA novels should be 50,000 - 60,000 because they're meant to entice teenagers ORZ
Guilty as charged. I grew up the third of four siblings. My brother had to climb onto the roof to adjust the antenna so that we could get channels besides CBC. If the picture was clear, there wasn't any sound, so me made our own voice tracks, like Mystery Science Theatre 3000(before it came out). I had to look up Westerfeld, Leviathan and the Uglies. My younger daughters (tweens) might like these series. Yes, it's between SF and mainstream with that feeling of strangeness. Bruce Sterling (cyberpunk) thought up the term. The genre has been applied in hindsight to past work as well. Like any category, it's fairly slippery.
50 to 60K is the standard length for young adults (for Youth readers 40K words), however, teen novels have been much longer. I can think of several examples.