Are You Done Yet?
On word count and knowing when your book is finished
As an editor and literary agent, there is nothing that makes my heart sink more than when a submission or enquiry comes in with the words, ‘my novel is 300,000 words long’ in it. Unless you have written the next Game of Thrones, your novel probably does not need to be 300,000 words long – and since I don’t work on fantasy, no one submitting to me has wr…
