I've started to write a book... but I fear that it's going to be very short... do authors have any tips to make the book longer? Thank you!! Have a nice day
2006-09-08 12:33:51 · 11 answers · asked by Dan 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I suggest you look inside yourself and continue to come up with more ideas to expand your book, i.e. brainstorm, add new characters, etc. If you feel like you've reached the end of your story, maybe you should consider making your book into a collection of short stories.
2006-09-08 12:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by cryingrainbow 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If this is a work of fiction then perhaps it would work better as a short story and would be appropriate in a collection of your other stories. Some writers do write very short novels called novellas but these too usually get published with 3 or 4 other novellas by the same author. If your work is good,don't try to flesh it out artificially,let it stand on its own and submit as either a short story or a novella. Readers will always be able to pick up on a writer's efforts to pump up the word count and it would ruin your credibility.
2006-09-08 19:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by jidwg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an author but I helped my mother write a childrens novel.She thought hers was going to be short to.It isn't. What I kept telling her is to reread your novel yourself then take out what don't fit and put in a better version. Then have another person read chapter by chapter get there opinion onit and see if they have ideas for that chapter and or future chapters or serial books. Thats how my family helped my mom. Don't get me wrong it is still her book after all she wrote it we didn't. So try that.
2006-09-08 19:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by rahlyd swamp muffin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what type of book? with Fiction you should flesh out your characters and plot line -- akin to making a family tree of relationshps, actions, changes, attitudes, times etc. Also taking ideas from real life and fictionalizing them helps as it makes things more realistic.
non-fiction is different - then writing becomes a research issue.
2006-09-08 19:39:09 · answer #4 · answered by Loresinger99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try to go back and see if you can add any extra detail to certain parts. (Dont detail everything because that only gets boring) Read back and see if anything you mentioned could be explained such as a flashback and try to make a chaper out of it.
2006-09-08 19:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Keith Perry 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
just write all ideas down and form a story format
2006-09-08 19:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DETAILS. DETAILS. DETAILS. in order for people to visualize a story it needs a lot of details. From character description to ambiance to smells!
2006-09-08 19:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by Izzy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Write a story about liberal hypocrisy. That'll be about 2,000,000 pages. And that will cover just one year.
2006-09-08 19:36:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Im having chicken for dinner
2006-09-08 19:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
short or long It's all good.
2006-09-08 19:36:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋