Holoman
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I was wondering whether there is a rough, generally accepted minimum length for a fantasy novel? I am currently on vacation and writing quite a bit, but have just realised I am only 16k words in and am probably at the quarter point in my novel based on my outline. That would put the finished book at about 60k words. My writing is naturally fast-paced and I give the bare minimum info dumps I can get away with to build mystery but also because they can be boring.
I had 100k in my mind to aim for before editing/cutting but not sure if I want to force in 40k of extra content if I do get to the end and it is 60k. Maybe I could push it to 80k. I am tempted to start adding in little side stories now as I go to beef it up, but it may just end up adding bloat I cut later.
The whole novel follows one main character and forms part of a series.
I'm a bit worried about it because I remember reading Discworld #1 and feeling it was underwhelming. Not sure how much that had to do with it only being 65k words though or I just didn't get into the world. It is popular though.
Would readers or publishers feel it was too short for a novel? I do hope to go the trad publishing route with this.
I guess a fall back could be to redo it as a YA. I have a couple of options how I could work that.
I had 100k in my mind to aim for before editing/cutting but not sure if I want to force in 40k of extra content if I do get to the end and it is 60k. Maybe I could push it to 80k. I am tempted to start adding in little side stories now as I go to beef it up, but it may just end up adding bloat I cut later.
The whole novel follows one main character and forms part of a series.
I'm a bit worried about it because I remember reading Discworld #1 and feeling it was underwhelming. Not sure how much that had to do with it only being 65k words though or I just didn't get into the world. It is popular though.
Would readers or publishers feel it was too short for a novel? I do hope to go the trad publishing route with this.
I guess a fall back could be to redo it as a YA. I have a couple of options how I could work that.
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