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Pacing, Plotting

Writing Lesson 14 – Maddening Middles

A Novel is More than a Beginning and an End

Here are some novel facts:

Most average novels run between 55,000-80,000 words.
A “long novel” is considered to be a novel upwards of 80,000 words and stopping at about 100,000.

No matter how you hammer them on the page, that’s a lot of words.

When, for the first time ever, [...]