Ahh, sweet freedom :) Is length the reason they decided to split it up in paperback form, Ray? (It was a great marketing decision... As an 11-year old boy trying to decide where to spend his hard-earned paper route money, I had a personal rule of only buying books that were in series and had cool cover art :). When I saw "Magician: Apprentice" sitting next to "Magician: Master", it passed my major criteria, so I bought both of them.)
You'll be happy to know my bar has been raised considerably higher from when I was 11, and you still pass :) (as does Magician, which I just finished reading for the umpteenth time a couple of days ago. That book never gets old.) On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Nat Russo wrote: > > > As I search online for information, I'm hearing different numbers when it > comes to a target word count or page count for new fantasy authors. So far > I've heard everything from 80k words, to 120k words (which worries me, > because I'm pushing 112k already, and have only completed about 80% of the > prose. True, I will still need to go back and revise, but I'm beginning to > wonder if I'm going to overshoot a recommended word count and have my > manuscript tossed out before it's even read. > > > > Can you offer any advice, Ray? > > > Ya. Just write the damn thing. It's as long as it's long. Did you notice > the size of Magician? > > Best, R.E.F. > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > >
