Sounds like a Napalm Death album. I write with reference to my on-off, on-off love/hate affair with my Vampire Urban Thriller The Covenant. Last week I tore it to shreds, scrapping a 70,000-word bowl of utter dog water, down to something I could work with. I had just over 10,000 words left. Killing your darlings …
Tag Archives: word count
Lost and Found
I’ve noticed a few Adventurers have gone their separate ways from the blog – I wish them luck on their travels and endeavours, and thank them for stopping by and sharing the fire on occasion. May your paths be straight, the road be firm and your burdens light. 🙂 When I first started this blog, …
A Loss For Words
As authors we are constantly thinking about word count. We want more, always more, and so do Publishers, as they will often specify a word count in their application process – some ones I have seen will take no less than 80,000 which does qualify as full novel length according to some metrics. So it …
Thanks!
This was going to be a huge ramble, but I thought coming to the point and adding an update would be less gruelling for my fellow Adventurers! Thank you to whoever bought my book (Children of The Glyph) in the past few days – I really appreciate it and I am always grateful to the …
Mightier Is The Pen 