ISBW Video Special- NaNoWriMo Debriefing

6 Responses to ISBW Video Special- NaNoWriMo Debriefing

1. Gil says:

   December 19, 2011 at 5:30 pm

   Hi Mur

   I really love the new video posts. I have a question: at about 11:40 in the video you said that ’50,000 words is not a book’ – what exactly did you mean?
   • Mur Lafferty says:

     December 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm

     Most books on the shelves are 80,000-100,000 words. Fantasy can run 200,000 words. You won’t sell an adult novel that’s 50,000 words long- although you may sell a midgrade book that long. Most editors won’t look at a book that’s 50k words. According to the Science Fiction Writers of America, 50,000 words would be a novella.

     I suppose I should have said “not a novel” instead of “not a book” – but for most fiction markets, 50,000 words will not sell.
     • Gil says:

       December 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm

       Thanks for clearing that up
2. Joe says:

   December 20, 2011 at 2:36 am

   Thanks for that clarification, Mur!
3. Arachne Jericho says:

   December 20, 2011 at 7:12 pm

   It’s one thing to win NaNoWriMo, but another thing to continue writing every day, which is why I was still watching.

   Since the first of December, I’ve written every day, aiming towards 500 words, sometimes reaching far over 1000, but always doing at least 100. The habits from NaNoWriMo are sticking, and with a lower word impact I can get other things done… like reading books about writing, and analyzing other books to extract the storytelling techniques, and… basically having homework FOREVER.
4. Tony Dyer says:

   December 21, 2011 at 1:42 pm

   Any chance you could put the video stuff on a separate feed and put an audio only version on the audio only feed?