melly - love your reply (honestly!) I had NO idea it was so long until I decided to try to 'get it in print' then I was floored. The other 3 books are not that long.
I never set out to write a series or even to do more than just to write. I had a few pages of 'thought' that sat around for nearly a year. One day I opened it again and the next thing I knew... there were four books worth. It just came out and I couldn't stop it, lol.
No - none of them are writers. I actually never intended to come out of my writer's closet. One close friend was the only one I had EVER let read my 'stuff'. With this one she begged me to let a friend read it. Against everything inside me I let her. She was an older teenager, honor roll, but into the latest YA out there. She went crazy over it. From there it just kept going. So, none of them are writers, but they all fell in love with the books.
I've thought about the challenge of splitting it into two books, I told them it wasn't as easy as picking page X and putting "the end". Through previous self revisions I've run into the "crap, now I've gotta go to book three and...."
They love the series, I love the series, so I now either need to decide how to work them into a 'product' or decide to love it and tuck it onto the 'shelf' and start a new project with all that I am learning.
But yea, 192k in one book??? Yikes! ha ha
I don't know much about 'beta readers' but I'm trying to read up on it and learn more about that.
I've been writing since I was old enough to hold a pencil, but this 'world' is still very new to me. Definitely not what I had expected. Exciting, scary, extremely more 'business' than I had ever thought but I am learning SO much and am very grateful for every bit of it
I never set out to write a series or even to do more than just to write. I had a few pages of 'thought' that sat around for nearly a year. One day I opened it again and the next thing I knew... there were four books worth. It just came out and I couldn't stop it, lol.
No - none of them are writers. I actually never intended to come out of my writer's closet. One close friend was the only one I had EVER let read my 'stuff'. With this one she begged me to let a friend read it. Against everything inside me I let her. She was an older teenager, honor roll, but into the latest YA out there. She went crazy over it. From there it just kept going. So, none of them are writers, but they all fell in love with the books.
I've thought about the challenge of splitting it into two books, I told them it wasn't as easy as picking page X and putting "the end". Through previous self revisions I've run into the "crap, now I've gotta go to book three and...."
They love the series, I love the series, so I now either need to decide how to work them into a 'product' or decide to love it and tuck it onto the 'shelf' and start a new project with all that I am learning.
But yea, 192k in one book??? Yikes! ha ha
I don't know much about 'beta readers' but I'm trying to read up on it and learn more about that.
I've been writing since I was old enough to hold a pencil, but this 'world' is still very new to me. Definitely not what I had expected. Exciting, scary, extremely more 'business' than I had ever thought but I am learning SO much and am very grateful for every bit of it