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		By: Graeme Ing		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/so-you-want-to-be-an-author-but/#comment-383&quot;&gt;Gray Sharpling&lt;/a&gt;.

Good advice from Alda there. :)

It does SEEM like authors have to produce monster books. It also SEEMS like everyone has to write a series, but there are still a lot of us putting out single books at 100K words or less. Are we maximizing our success by doing this? Possibly not, but not everyone loves a Monster epic book. It&#039;s nice that the reader has choice.You comment is valid but I wonder if the expectation is from the reader or from the author?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/so-you-want-to-be-an-author-but/#comment-383">Gray Sharpling</a>.</p>
<p>Good advice from Alda there. 🙂</p>
<p>It does SEEM like authors have to produce monster books. It also SEEMS like everyone has to write a series, but there are still a lot of us putting out single books at 100K words or less. Are we maximizing our success by doing this? Possibly not, but not everyone loves a Monster epic book. It&#8217;s nice that the reader has choice.You comment is valid but I wonder if the expectation is from the reader or from the author?</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alan Alda (of &quot;M*A*S*H&quot; fame) said this of writing (I&#039;m paraphrasing):
 1. Get your hero up a tree.
 2. Throw rocks at him!
 3. Get him down the tree.
And as for &quot;writers spend months and months rewriting the first 40 pages over and over&quot;.  This is how Douglas Adams used to work - a bestselling author yes, but hardly prolific.  Less than a dozen books (and none very long!) in over a quarter-century of writing.

Like the man said:  &quot;Just write&quot;!

Also, twenty or thirty years ago, books were 200, 300 pages long on average.  In fact, 300 pages was a long book.  Now it SEEMS like authors are expected to produce 500+ page epics every time (J.K.Rowling take note).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alan Alda (of &#8220;M*A*S*H&#8221; fame) said this of writing (I&#8217;m paraphrasing):<br />
 1. Get your hero up a tree.<br />
 2. Throw rocks at him!<br />
 3. Get him down the tree.<br />
And as for &#8220;writers spend months and months rewriting the first 40 pages over and over&#8221;.  This is how Douglas Adams used to work &#8211; a bestselling author yes, but hardly prolific.  Less than a dozen books (and none very long!) in over a quarter-century of writing.</p>
<p>Like the man said:  &#8220;Just write&#8221;!</p>
<p>Also, twenty or thirty years ago, books were 200, 300 pages long on average.  In fact, 300 pages was a long book.  Now it SEEMS like authors are expected to produce 500+ page epics every time (J.K.Rowling take note).</p>
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