24th November 2003, 2:19 PM
Usually in such cases I believe they tend to only publish works they solicit, and they're far harder on works using others' licensed property.
I remember reading your story back when it was in the close 300s, and it was good, but why throw about page numbers?
Take Robert Jordan. He's a great writer and I like his stories, but honestly, you could abridge his 1000-page novels at least 35% without losing anything important.
That said, you could probably abridge 90% of the last four books and lose nothing important, but I digress.
If you're going to write 500 pages, make sure there's 500 pages worth of story to write. I see Jordan as an author who writes for sheer length and that makes some of his books quite dull for periods of time.
I remember reading your story back when it was in the close 300s, and it was good, but why throw about page numbers?
Take Robert Jordan. He's a great writer and I like his stories, but honestly, you could abridge his 1000-page novels at least 35% without losing anything important.
That said, you could probably abridge 90% of the last four books and lose nothing important, but I digress.
If you're going to write 500 pages, make sure there's 500 pages worth of story to write. I see Jordan as an author who writes for sheer length and that makes some of his books quite dull for periods of time.
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