JP Harker
Scribe
This may have been asked before/be in the wrong section but I had a quick look through the posts and couldn't see anything;
The last time I got feedback from an agent about a submission I was told to cut back a bit on my world building as it upped the wordcount to above the limit he was willing to look at (I'm a very new writer and he didn't want to look at anything over 175k for a first book).
Has anyone else faced this problem and if so, how have you dealt with it? People either love or hate Tolkien for creating such a rich world and I like the idea of readers knowing a bit about the history and culture, but then I'm stuck between a rock and a cliche because if I include that I have to cut back on stuff like plot and character developement which is almost certainly worse. Any bright ideas?
The last time I got feedback from an agent about a submission I was told to cut back a bit on my world building as it upped the wordcount to above the limit he was willing to look at (I'm a very new writer and he didn't want to look at anything over 175k for a first book).
Has anyone else faced this problem and if so, how have you dealt with it? People either love or hate Tolkien for creating such a rich world and I like the idea of readers knowing a bit about the history and culture, but then I'm stuck between a rock and a cliche because if I include that I have to cut back on stuff like plot and character developement which is almost certainly worse. Any bright ideas?