Hi, I think that some (perhaps many) first-time authors don't really have a sense of what's absolutely necessary to keep in a book and what needs to be cut. If you haven't dealt with much real, serious criticism of your work in the past (and I'm using "you" in a general sense, and not referring to any one specific person), you might not really have an understanding of the editing process, of plotting, etc. (Real, serious criticism coming not from your friends, family, high school English teacher, or significant other, but from people who don't know you well and are thus not afraid to tell it like it is.) Unfortunately, if you present a 100K+ word telephone book to a literary agent or publisher, the lack of criticism and revision prior to submission might be a real turn-off. There's a picture floating around on the internet of Tor's slush pile. It's actually pretty huge. These editors and agents (or interns, as the case may be) have a thankless job to sort through all of that stuff. And if you're a first-time author sending in something super long, chances are, you haven't taken the plunge and mercilessly cut the unnecessary filler, description, and background material from your work. If, by some stretch of the imagination, you manage to get past the rejection pile anyway, you are probably going to be edited down to under 100K words.
Please help. Thanks!
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
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27.11.2017 15:23
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