Cross-posted from the Mavens blog
When I wrote my first manuscript the first time (and the second, third, and even fouth times), one of the comments I persistently got from my critique partners and from contest judges was that there “wasn’t enough conflict to sustain a full 100K-word novel.” But since I’d actually written more than 100K to get to The End (the first completed first draft was a whopping 136K and that was after I chopped some stuff), I have admit, I kinda scratched my head over that.
I mean, I’d sustained a 100K novel with the conflict I had. What in the world were they talking about? Obviously, they didn’t know what they were talking about and should be shanked with Erica’s machete.
Read the rest of my moment of brilliance (or forehead-smacking d’oh!) here.
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