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Most Definitely a Monday
May. 9th, 2011 05:40 pmIt's most definitely a Monday, as evidenced by my blogging at 5:30. There was no one major crisis at work, just a succession of minor but time-consuming problems. Shakespeare would have called it "alarums and excursions."
At any rate, the day is done. I am pleased to report that Jeff Duntemann has released his "Copperwood Double #1" - two short novels in one book. The details for interested buyers is over on his site. I've ordered my copy (dead-tree version - I'm a traditionalist) and I'll blog more about it when it arrives.
Jeff, in his post, talks about the virtues of short novels - stuff from 20,000 words to about 50,000 words. I've mentioned that stories have their Sweet Spot, just like golf clubs do. For some stories, like my own The Mars Run, that's short. For Pirates of Mars, it's longer - 77,000 words, at the bottom end of modern novel lengths. For the work in progress, The Night Watch, I don't know yet where the sweet spot is. But now with print-on-demand and ebooks, we writers are becoming less tied to hitting a specific word count and better able to Just Tell The Damn Story, at whatever length.
At any rate, the day is done. I am pleased to report that Jeff Duntemann has released his "Copperwood Double #1" - two short novels in one book. The details for interested buyers is over on his site. I've ordered my copy (dead-tree version - I'm a traditionalist) and I'll blog more about it when it arrives.
Jeff, in his post, talks about the virtues of short novels - stuff from 20,000 words to about 50,000 words. I've mentioned that stories have their Sweet Spot, just like golf clubs do. For some stories, like my own The Mars Run, that's short. For Pirates of Mars, it's longer - 77,000 words, at the bottom end of modern novel lengths. For the work in progress, The Night Watch, I don't know yet where the sweet spot is. But now with print-on-demand and ebooks, we writers are becoming less tied to hitting a specific word count and better able to Just Tell The Damn Story, at whatever length.
