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Desiderius Price

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  1. I go with word counts because page counts are so easy to manipulate (font size, page size, font type, spacing, etc) – I remember playing with those back in school when a teacher would specify “X” pages and I’d come up otherwise short. I’ve tried 3Kwords, I’ve tried 25Kwords, and I’ve settled on a general rule of thumb for 6k-8k. However, I’ll tolerate less/more if the chapter/circumstances demand it. At 10k I’m generally looking to see if there’s a good way to divide it. Below 5k, and I’m considering whether the chapter should be condensed with another, or something should be added. Too short, and nobody gets engaged to click that “next” button, and too long, well, both makes it more daunting to me as an author and gives fewer natural “resting points” for the reader to set aside and come back later (I mean, if it’s a really long story, they need breaks).
  2. For significant characters, I try to make sure they have hobbies, phobias, and perhaps an allergy or two. (Like names, I’ve got a random picker app that makes suggestions.) Culture/ethnicity is simply one piece to the character, not the full picture.
  3. Every character you write will have, at its core, a reflection of you, after all, writing is a form of Schizophrenia that won’t get you locked up (well, normally).
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  6. Any rumours of Breitbart acquiring AFF are greatly exaggerated.  Hope everybody enjoys their April Fool’s day.  :P

     

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  7. You can toy with the reader further by adding in some red herrings, misleading the characters and readers to the wrong conclusion, at least for a while. As to the level of hints, you can pepper both subtle and more obvious, as desired, as some readers will appreciate them, others, well, they’d gloss over them and be in for a bigger surprise.
  8. Good news, got in several miles of walking under my new tire-blowout fitness plan.

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      The more complete story.   On the way home this evening, heard a “whump” “whump” sound, growing, to the point that I couldn’t ignore it.  Tire blown out, tread separated.  So, after putting on the “doughnut” so-called spare, drove it to the shop and walked home from there.

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