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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
Hey Steven! Glad to see a familiar face.
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Yeah, sorry I've been gone so much. Real life has kinda killed my internet free time lately. ^_^;;
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I've actually never read that one.
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REALLY!? Wow, you've missed out on a great book then.
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What sort of age group are you targeting?
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Probably age 6-12 or so.
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...and read The Sword of Shannara when I was a preteen/young teenager.
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I didn't discover that book until a couple of years ago. Totally loved it.
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Originally Posted by rhadin
I'm not sure how much of a guideline there really is. I know several 8- and 9-year-olds who have read every Harry Potter book. My own children read The Hobbit at 6 years of age, albeit with some help from me. But I think Rowling has demonstrated that there need be no word count limit; content is significantly more important.
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Yeah, I know. That's where my confusion came in. Hence why I was looking for an "average" word count to go by. Again, word count doesn't matter in the end, but for me it makes a good writing tool to get me started. It's most useful in forcing me to expound my ideas. Otherwise I have a habit of falling back into my short story writing mentality and shortchanging things.