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12,000 words? So, like, two chapters?
that's like one eighth of a whole-ass book, my friend. and after a year of writer's block that shit would hurt to lose.
Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
I once wrote 5k words uphill both ways in the snow.
Literally, though, yeah I did.
alright, cool. so what?
So its a pretty small number of words.
Are we supposed to clap you now?
Honey, you need to buy me some drinks first.
Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.
I was a 3.8 with degrees in Engineering and a minor in Humanities, and yes actually I am a published scifi writer as well.
I don't mean to put anybody down, unlike you, but 12k simply isn't a lot in the context of a manuscript.
Anybody reading this who dabbles in writing should spend more time on it to reach realistic goals in their lifetime.
My point is that your 3.8 Engineering/Humanities assignment is not a product that needs to marketed to the masses. 5k words in that space is easy, and I think this because I have done the same thing in the same field (Engr).
12k words isn't a huge amount, but as a published sci-fi writer you already understand that fictional writing is a saturated market with brutal competition, and publisher deal deadlines can be brutal too.
Maybe he was writing in german? Some words can be sentence long.
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