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How long should your first novel be if you want to get it submitted for publication?
Surely today, a novellette or a collection of short stories is the best form for an unpubished writer. I'd imagine you would have more of a chance getting people's interest by keeping it short. Most of the young writers I've seen have published something less than 200 pages.
I'm talking about original fiction, of course. Not Fantasy or Crime Thrillers, which usually need to be at least 300 pages.
Do any anons have any experience of this?
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The market for short story collections and novellas is smaller than novels. I'd say a shortish novel, maybe ~200 pages, would be the most common debut.
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>>9392732
why is it that nobody on this board discusses submissions to agents? has everyone been rejected by agents so they're forced to submit to publications?
also, why the talk about page numbers? word count is what matters.
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>>9393776
>word count is what matters
I was just about to ask. What d'yall consider ideal? There's no way I'd be able to hold myself to it, but I'm curious.
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I'm in the process of writing my first novel and I'm trying to keep the scope limited so I dont overreach. Honestly Im going for 50-70,000 words. just get a story that works and is readable. I know it wont be a masterpiece so I dont want to invest in a 200,000 word epic, cuz its gonna be shit either way.
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>>9393902
Me too. I wrote a 200k draft of shite, now I'm trying to whittle it down to about 80k of OK.
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