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Local Authors => Reading Excuses => Topic started by: Silk on June 18, 2010, 07:12:25 PM
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So provided I manage to figure out what to do with it by Monday, the story that I plan on submitting is, ahem, a bit long. The last time I split an over-long submission people commented that they would have rather seen the whole thing all at once. So: This is a short story (well, novelette really). Would you rather get it in two installments or all at once? It's about 11,000 words.
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All at once, please, unless you can find a point in the middle that works as a good cliffhanger, or if you'd like specific feedback on two halves independently.
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All at once.
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I'll also say all at once.
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This may be a legitimate thing to alter our submission guidelines with, considering the "rule" we currently have was made completely arbitrarily.
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...and that everybody has pretty much ignored it for months now. :P
As for me, I say split it in half.
J/k. Send it all at once, pls.
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...and that everybody has pretty much ignored it for months now. :P
Right. So we should probably change that :P
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Fine, I'll send Ryos half and everyone else gets the whole thing. :P
Right. So we should probably change that
If people start sending me their whole novels at once I am going to drop out. :P Better yet, I'll just make sure all my critiques read "tl;dr" :P
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Well, that'll save you time on the critiquing, at least.
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Frankly I was of the impression that the length was a flexible guideline rather than a hard fast rule. I know from past installments that you move pretty briskly, so there is very little chance that it's going to drag.