Word Count.
As I got deeper into my concept of the Chairman and his story I noticed that the manuscript would easily go into the six digit word count.
No problem … to me. I read Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising in about 20 hours.
Then I got into studying the publishing business and I discovered The Rule concerning debut authors.
First book = less than 100,000 words (at least for scifi stories).
Hmmmm. Ok.
Some people might immediately see these situations as limitations.
Avoid that. Dwell instead on how this could be an opportunity.
This ‘limitation’ was exactly the thing that gave me the idea for a series.
Suddenly the story opened up much further than I’d originally envisioned.
I’m still writing the series as one continuous outline to maintain my sanity in keeping the details right though lol.
I’m going for 9x,xxx word count in each book.
Easier to work with the system than to fight it 😀
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Dan Passaro 