:eek: A writing question, lol.

[EmeraldKitten]

Okay. So I have a few stories that are pretty long. (Short, I'm sure, compared to some, but quite an achievement for me. )
One is 28 pages, the other 36. Neither are done, but they're close. I basically just need to end them.
(That's been a trick in itself. )
So I guess I have a couple questions.
First, how many Lit pages would that be?
And at that rate, should I cut them in half, and do a chapter thing?

Please, all you dirty minded people, give me your best advice.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Okay. So I have a few stories that are pretty long. (Short, I'm sure, compared to some, but quite an achievement for me. )
One is 28 pages, the other 36. Neither are done, but they're close. I basically just need to end them.
(That's been a trick in itself. )
So I guess I have a couple questions.
First, how many Lit pages would that be?
And at that rate, should I cut them in half, and do a chapter thing?

Please, all you dirty minded people, give me your best advice.

i just looked at a 16 page story - font 12 single line spacing, it came to 3 lit pages. 8700 words.

as for chapters, etc, that's horses for courses.

 

[DG Hear]

First, finish the story. Then reread it. If it is in chapters then you may want to submit chapters seperately. It doesn't seem that long to me and a lot of readers prefer a single read once they get into a story. If it were mine I would make it a single submission either way. Looks like arong 4 lit pages.
Hope this helps
DG

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Thanks you guys.

Yeah, I figure it won't be too god-awful long, so I probably will just submit as one.
The only thing I get worried about is if people will actually read all the pages. lol. But I suppose there are some die-hards out there that would.
Thanks again!

I have a goal. That goal is to finish every unfinshed story in my folder.
So that's what I'm doing. Geez. This may take a while.

 

[TxRad]

6-7 word pages equal one Lit page. Weird Harold had the exact answer but 6-7 works for me.

Yeah, finishing a story is sometimes harder than starting one. Sometimes you just have to hit it in the head with a shovel.

Good Luck.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

6-7 word pages equal one Lit page. Weird Harold had the exact answer but 6-7 works for me.

Yeah, finishing a story is sometimes harder than starting one. Sometimes you just have to hit it in the head with a shovel.

Good Luck.

Thanks Tx.
You're absolutely right. But I may need a sledgehammer for all these.

I've been writing all morning, so I'm making progress.

 

[sr71plt]

Work with wordage rather than pages (which can vary depending on the computer's page settings). Divide by 3,750 words (an approxmiate Lit. page wordage).

 

[Weird Harold]

First, how many Lit pages would that be?
And at that rate, should I cut them in half, and do a chapter thing?

Lit pages average 3,767 words +/- about 400 words. SR's 3,750 word value works as well as any within that range. The cutoff is actually based on character count of around 14KB but has enough qualifiers to prevent chopping a Lit page in the middle of a word or sentence that word count is easier to approximate.

Break your story into chapters if it is suited to breaking into chapters. There is (almost) nothing worse than coming to the end of a page in the middle of an engrossing story and finding "to be continued" without some sort of intermediate resolution or cliffhanger.

If your story doesn't naturally break into chapters or can't be revised to break into chapters, post it in one piece. If it's a good story, it won't matter how many pages it takes, people will keep reading to the end.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Thanks again peeps.
Well, for better or worse I submitted this morning. Came to 5 Lit pages.
Soooo.. just hoping for the best on that one! lol.