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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 1, 2010 9:49:45 GMT -5
I'm so excited I have to share it with you. My 68K novel has been found. It was hiding on a CD all this time! This is so exciting.
I also found the 9K word sequel.
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Post by CtraK on Dec 1, 2010 13:54:40 GMT -5
Well that is spiffing.
Although 68k seems kinda short. Unless that happens to be its name, in which case it's excellently enigmatic.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 1, 2010 14:16:29 GMT -5
Most publishers won't publish a first time novel that is above 70K unless it's a fantasy novel.
At least I was told it has to be below a certain amount but above a certain amount for publishers to take a chance on printing it.
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Post by the sandman on Dec 1, 2010 14:51:42 GMT -5
Do you mean word count?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 1, 2010 15:19:26 GMT -5
Indeed.
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Post by Magnizeal on Dec 14, 2010 20:39:28 GMT -5
50K is the minimum for an actual novel, by what NaNoWriMo says. So, 68K sounds like a nice sized book. What's it about?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 14, 2010 21:45:17 GMT -5
Basically what would have happened to the world if Hitler never killed himself during world war two. War still goes on. My character, a female, joins up in the 50s and fights. She ends up masquerading as a guy to do so. She has all sorts of fun adventures and later on she learns some stuff about her family that one doesn't want to learn.
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Post by Tiberius on Dec 15, 2010 1:54:56 GMT -5
Basically what would have happened to the world if Hitler never killed himself during world war two. War still goes on. My character, a female, joins up in the 50s and fights. She ends up masquerading as a guy to do so. She has all sorts of fun adventures and later on she learns some stuff about her family that one doesn't want to learn. Erm... Hitler killed himself when the Russians already had the Germans all but finished... another five years of war would require quite a bit more as far as an alternate history is concerned. I'm assuming there are a lot of other factors in your AU, but the way you described it made it sound like Hitler was the only difference.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 15, 2010 2:55:10 GMT -5
yes i realize that, Tibbles. There's much more to it. I was simplifying it. Multiple different things happened that I still have to touch on in the series.
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Post by MaybeNever on Dec 15, 2010 4:49:35 GMT -5
I love alternate history, but I'm not sure that "fun adventures" jibe quite properly with an expanded World War 2.
"Yay, I'm killing Russian peasants! Whee, now I'm murdering gestapo! Perhaps later I can sing about puppies while happily joining the assault on Japanese-occupied Guam!"
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 15, 2010 8:04:40 GMT -5
;-; I was being funny with that. But her furlough is fun.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 15, 2010 18:28:55 GMT -5
I love alternate history, but I'm not sure that "fun adventures" jibe quite properly with an expanded World War 2. "Yay, I'm killing Russian peasants! Whee, now I'm murdering gestapo! Perhaps later I can sing about puppies while happily joining the assault on Japanese-occupied Guam!" If WW2 wasn't a barrel of laughs, then how come Maus is a comic book, huh?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 21, 2010 20:43:22 GMT -5
I've been reading it and I was actually rather cruel to my main protagonist. lol
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Post by CtraK on Dec 22, 2010 16:56:37 GMT -5
If WW2 wasn't a barrel of laughs, then how come Maus is a comic book, huh? Well, the New York Times did say this - "Art Spiegelman won a special award for his "Maus" chronicles, the history of an Auschwitz survivor told in comic book form. The Pulitzer board members, like book reviewers and book store owners before them, found the cartoonist's depiction of Nazi Germany hard to classify." Of course, that may be the New York Times having a massive brain fart, seeing as I've never read Maus.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jan 3, 2011 8:46:01 GMT -5
Most publishers won't publish a first time novel that is above 70K unless it's a fantasy novel. At least I was told it has to be below a certain amount but above a certain amount for publishers to take a chance on printing it. That's unsettling. Or not. I'm not quite sure. I haven't been motivated enough to resume any of my writings as everytime I get a good pace going I come up with another idea and abandon the one I'm doing in favor of the new idea. I have four stories (they're not long enough at the moment to be classified as anything else as far as I'm concerned) that I know what I want to do with and where I'm going with them in the works because of this.
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