I was just hashing out schedules with Shana, for a manuscript I’m working on, and saying how my own goal was to get another ten to fifteen pages written in the next two weeks (single-spaced, I can’t write properly in double). And then I had a brainflash and said, “lots of dialogue! ha ha!”
Do other writers think that too? How evil is that? For some reason though, it made me giggle nonstop for about five minutes.
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That’s the one reason for the page count vs. word count thing we were talking about.
Lots of writers are evil.
Oh you SQUARE.
Mine was non-fiction, so that wasn’t an option. I did have a breakdown, though, when my editor told me it was too wordy and assigned me to rewrite it. All of it.
I once did a paper on the Eiffel Tower for a French history course and filled half of the paper with pictures. I got a C. But those pictures rocked.