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crich70 · 10-29-2017, 11:37 PM

I read an interesting article about writing a Novella that may be useful. After all 50k is more like a long Novella than anything. How to write a Novella

Cinisajoy · 10-29-2017, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by crich70

Or some Mary Jane.

That would be brownies not a cake lol.

BookCat · 10-30-2017, 02:09 PM

Love the idea of the MJ. She could do this accidentally; one of her best male friends is a musician and maybe inadvertently leaves some at her house, she thinks it's a spice, so pops some in a cake she makes for an occasion I've yet to create. Yes, this idea has legs, but would take the plot in a different direction (she'd eventually be angry with the musician guy who I'm setting up as an alternative love interest).

I'll certainly give the novella article a read, but I'm not writing a 50k novella, I'm finishing the first draft of a novel started many nanos ago (I didn't win that one, only reaching 22k; but I have won one nano in that I reached 53k words but this didn't finish the novel. Frankly, that's a better book than the one I'm working on now, but very unnervingly spooky).

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crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,305 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	I read an interesting article about writing a Novella that may be useful. After all 50k is more like a long Novella than anything. How to write a Novella

10-30-2017, 02:09 PM	#48
BookCat C L J Posts: 2,912 Karma: 21115458 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham UK Device: Sony e-reader 505, Kindle PW2, Kindle PW3, Kobo Libra2	Love the idea of the MJ. She could do this accidentally; one of her best male friends is a musician and maybe inadvertently leaves some at her house, she thinks it's a spice, so pops some in a cake she makes for an occasion I've yet to create. Yes, this idea has legs, but would take the plot in a different direction (she'd eventually be angry with the musician guy who I'm setting up as an alternative love interest). I'll certainly give the novella article a read, but I'm not writing a 50k novella, I'm finishing the first draft of a novel started many nanos ago (I didn't win that one, only reaching 22k; but I have won one nano in that I reached 53k words but this didn't finish the novel. Frankly, that's a better book than the one I'm working on now, but very unnervingly spooky).