#industry standard is 70k-120k for adult fiction - longer end for fantasy/literary/history categories
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How's Knitwear Club going?
Well, I'm reaching the end of Ch. 14 (over 50% of the way through) and have already surpassed 100 pages and 70,000 words.
Let's hope the literary agent is open to a big debut novel, maybe?
#Knitwear Club#writing#original fiction#industry standard is 70k-120k for adult fiction - longer end for fantasy/literary/history categories#it can surpass 120k if it's science fiction due to worldbuilding#i wonder if they'll let me have an extra 20k or so on top of that?#me begging for a longer word count limit like please sir may i have some more???#and the publishing industry tells me i am not charles dickens and this is not david copperfield#fuck your word count and fuck your gruel#kill your darlings
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