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Yeah I've heard that. I've also heard to the effect of "Just set yourself a writing budget each week". My goal rn is 5k words a week. Looking to do a book in the ballpark of 240k words. Assuming a range of 2000-5000 words a chapter. The biggest problem is that I feel zero inspiration to write another book/novel. As I pretty much am only doing this because I feel inspired to, as a creative outlet, that makes it difficult to switch. I'm sort of aware that this first book is probably going to suck a lot. I've been calling it my coprolite novel.
I forgot that BSandy has lectures on narrative building, I'm curious how helpful they would be. I've read a metric fuckton of books in my genre, including most of the really high quality ones. It's not so much world building, plot, characters or systems that I'm worried about. It's the smaller, low level things: sentence structure, prose, word choice, dialogue. I might peruse his lecture series and see if he goes over any of that. Though in my opinion his prose and dialogue is pretty average.
Eragon got published because both his parents run a major publishing house. I don't think Christopher has written anything else, and the books are pretty juvenile. I don't think YA existed as a strong label at that point (or at least I hadn't heard of it) but they are strong examples of it. And it's a genre classification I really want to avoid. It has a very stable narrative structure and very predictable tropes, to the point that often world building is both the only unique thing, and simultaneously window-dressing.
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