However, many of them have dozens of stories where they’ve gotten a few chapters into a book, only to get frustrated, uninterested, or simply find themselves uncertain what to write next. I’ve met lots of people who, by sheer number of pages writing, should have completed several novels. This is hard, perhaps the hardest part about the process of crafting a novel. However, their writing tends to break down when looked across the scope of an entire book. Indeed, plotting on the large scale is probably the most common problem I notice with newer authors–often they can write very well when you look at their stories on the paragraph, or even page, level. (Both of which are around 200,000 words long, making them around 500 pages in hardback or 600-700 pages in paperback.)Įven a lot of amateur authors get frustrated with the process of storytelling, particularly when they look at the large picture. A lot of people I meet at book signings or through email seem quite awed by the concept of conceiving, building, then executing a book the length of ELANTRIS or MISTBORN. Many things about the writing process seem fascinating, even mystical, to the layman.
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