So what im wandering is if I should divide up the book and release it peace by peace or should I try and put it all out in one big book. Oh I forgot to add in that my brother is probably going to be doing a gothic sort of anime art that will be threwout the book. He will be illistraiting key points in the book. Such as funny seans or introductions or battles well you get the point.

Oy did I just lose my qustion point? Anyways feed back would be nice. Oh it may be nice of me to say what the book is about. Its about a person who is 22 thousand years old and has hated himself all that time. The story picks up were he meets a 500 year old girl that over time teaches him how to love himself. Thay traval together and get into alot of truble and wars and meet qorky people along the way.

I think that about sums up the story. Well as short as I can put it anyways. Bla bla bla I need to let you answer my qustion.

Bye

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Do you have someone to publish it yet ? Do you intend to self publish ? Please don't think me rude, but if you intend to publish your own book, you need to get a friend to spell check it for you.

As for the size of pages. If the page is 6 and a half inches wide and 9 inches long that would be the size that im useing at the momment. The text would be New Roman Times I think at the size of 12. So ya thay are big pages. The real book of the hobbit papperback was I think close to 400 pages long. Not exactly sure thow ^_^

Anyways thanks for the input MMIO I think I may cut it up a bit. Still it should be a good long story :P

Drat now I have to edit this thing... anyways I forgot to say that I dont want to self publish. Thats to much head ake and ive been looking into it for a month now. I found a good place to get poblished and they accept unsulisited manuscrips. All thats really left is to finish the book put in the art and thats the end.

YAY for me
:P

[This message has been edited by Angel (edited August 30, 2002).]

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"Life as a Chrisitian is... interesting"

A thousand page document would really have to hold the reader's attention all the way through - not that you can't do that - it's a tough thing to do for anyone. Another thought is to do it like a novella series perhaps.

Whatever you go with I look forward to reading it

[This message has been edited by Nfektious (edited November 26, 2002).]

incompatent? barried? thussorus? actuly? useing? momment? papperback? thow? head ake? poblished? unsulisited? manuscrips?

People's online spelling and grammer does seem to be erring on the side of humorous

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There's a difference you know, 'tween having faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow, the other one's just a fantasy...

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing, it's about as useless as a screendoor on a submarine...

...and yes this is my idea of a joke and any similarity to any real organization is not only pure coincidence, but downright hilarious...

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There's a difference you know, 'tween having faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow, the other one's just a fantasy...

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing, it's about as useless as a screendoor on a submarine...

God Bless

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[This message has been edited by Crptc_Prgrmr (edited August 31, 2002).]

Orson Scott Card once wrote a book that was over 1,000 pages and gave it to a friend to read. His friend replied that the book was good, but it was too short. Card was confused, but decided to start the book over and re-write. This time, though, he surprised himself when the story came out in full...but only at 200 pages! His friend re-read the story and replied that it was MUCH better, but that now it was too long!

Card couldn't understand what the heck his friend was talking about. How could a 1,000+ page book be too short while a 200- book is too long? Seems that it depends on how the story is told.

If you have a 1,000 page story, tell it in 1,000 pages. If you have a 200 page book, tell it in 200 pages.

Just make sure there is a main point of conflict, but then make a number of smaller conflicts baffle the way of the main character(s) getting to solution of the larger conflict, and do so in a logical, intertwined format. There can be many points of view that all arrive at this point of contention and collectively solve it, but don't allow your minor points of contention to detract from the major goal. They should be supportive of that goal. If there are a ton of mini goals without a main point (supported by the mini goals) then your story is really just a collection of little stories...hence "too short" regardless of pages. If there is one goal and no mini goals, you are going to have a "too long" story complex.

Hopefully that made sense

-Krylar

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my very best SCI FI book that I loved the most, was called 'THE BEAST' by A E van VOGT

I read that book SIX TIMES at least, only thing was, it had such a rotten ending but there you go.....

'meanmaninoz' is so right about spelling though
he's not saying anybody's rude OR incompetent

spellcheck will PAY OFF for anyone. I think I'm pretty good at spelling, but at the end of any WORD DOC. I always use spell check and most of the time, to my amazement, a word is highlighted and I say ooops! forgot about that

meanmaninoz has good advice but up to you

crptc_prgrmr, well nobody was going to say anything up to that point m8, but you're right too, Angel you're not the only one to have typos, if you can admit to having a problem you're half way there, right ?

BTW
my auntie went to a publisher with a book on the WWII

after a lot of haggling the publisher pulled out and she had to raise £1000s of cash from the immediate family, to finance "her own" publication of her book

when it came to it, ALL the graphics were left out, all the photos were left out, all the maps were left out

in the end: it was a 200 page book - with not one illustration, map, photo nothing

from what we were expecting to 200 pages of text only oh boy

so I walked into WHSMITH's a month later, oh boy IT WAS NOT ON THE SHELVES selling like hotcakes

every member of the family was mailed a copy of the book and ..... subject closed none of us dare raise the matter again (well not in public anyway)

PS
anyone interested in a 200 page book on WWII ?

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from your old mate
c h i e f y
global chiefy to yer old seadog seafarin' mateys

why not access chiefy's NEW worklogs ?

On a bright side for me my brother took the time out to read the whole thing. He said Tolken was boring but he loved my story and laughed alot while reading it. I guess I may have a select adience that I will need to identify.

About the WWII book im not to interested. History and what not get boring to me other then the Bible. I would give an example of someone to talk to about publishing it but you said its a closed subject.

Krylar you made a very nice point. My own famly threw that at me and so I have spent alot of time editing my own book. Adding information that is needed here and there. Then I took out retellings of old info that didnt need to be coverd.

As for subject matter and goals? The goal of the party is to stop a war. The story is mainly about growing and how others can help you. The war is a side goal that is revisited from time to time. Most of the rest of the book is battles and cheerful little disputes about what is right or wrong.

I think I have gotton enough answers for my old qustions. A new one would be wether or not you peeps think pix are a good thing to have? Do you want an illistration or are you one of them peeps who wants to imagin it for yourself?

typos typos wish I had a better keyboard
better yet I would like to have the net
then no more climbing stairs to swet
Maybe I should just get me cable or cord

blah to much time on my hands. I should work. Four hours a day on a book is enough? Naa I can do more work then that besides im getting a kick out of all this.

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Books with pictures are best left to pre-teens IMO.

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[This message has been edited by Crptc_Prgrmr (edited September 04, 2002).]

In terms of illistrations, MAPS ARE A NESSESITY. always throw in a map or 3, maybe a map of the town your in, or a road, whatever. and an overall map of the world. I always want to know where the character is. in terms of other pictures, thers always cover art, as well as a small pic at the begining or end of a chapter, but too many pictures make it a picture book, and changes the audiance. I prefure to imagine what things look like myself, in general.

Veri

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