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Originally Posted by maddz
In a way, we're going back to Golden Age novel lengths. They were, what, 40-45K words? The 100K blockbusters from the 90s onwards seem to be going out of fashion. In some ways, I prefer the tighter writing in the shorter length works; too many longer works feel padded.
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I don't mind a 200K novel, as long as it's not padded. Also I'd rather have a 35K that properly tells the story rather than one padded to 100K.
My advice to writers is ignore the word count.
My advice to publishers, judge a story on its merits, not size (that only affects paper print & distribution cost as Amazon ebook delivery charge is small), nor any other criteria (glances at the house full of random penguins and puffins).
I also don't like a single novel artificially broken into a trilogy. That's only acceptable for movies and radio-plays due to length if it's going to be 4 to 7 hours!