Tuesday Tips: Length

One question I hear a lot is "How Long is a novel?"

My answer is always, "The story should be as long as it needs to be to serve the Story."

That being said, here is a handy table.

New Audio Book! The Once Damned

Everything Ends… 

“Please don’t go.” She leaned her forehead on the nape of his neck. It was the most intimate moment he had ever experienced. His whole life had been violence and pain and death.

This hurt more than all of it.

“I must go. It is my final task. Live or die. The High Vestal must know the truth. I cannot do otherwise. I am finished hiding from the Queen. I am finished hiding from the truth, only to discover death hides from me.”

“They will try to stop you.”

“They will try."

--The novella is $.99 in Kindle and $4.80 for the Audio Edition (101 minutes!)

Cat and Computer

Summer Writing

This has been an odd summer so far. COVID has canceled all of my normal summer road trips and vacations. All my camping trips have been canceled as well. So we are staying home, staying in. Can't even go on our weekly summer movie dates at 11am on Tuesdays.

I have fallen into a new writing routine.

Instead of morning writing until lunch I am doing projects first thing to beat the heat. That is great for projects, but afternoon writing is not my best time.

I can still crank out a chapter but I miss the coffee. I don't want to make and drink a second pot a day so on Monday I will wait until noon to make a pot of coffee and see how that works.

--At least it's not 100 degrees in my den...

Short Film Friday: The Birch

Images that Inspire

Quotes of the Week

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariable answer, "One word at a time."
—Stephen King

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
—Cheryl Strayed

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.
—Paulo Coelho

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
—John Steinbeck

I only lie when I have to, but I have to a lot.
—Mark Twain (from Huckleberry Finn)

Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway

You must write. It’s not enough to start by thinking. You become a writer by writing.
—R.K. Narayan

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
—Anton Chekhov