[UA] Re: Collaborative Novel

[Twist0059 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/28/99 1:15:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, khris at clara.net 
writes:

> Kinda depends on how big the chapters are, doesn't it?

I was thinking of around 20 pages.  But it'd be up to the writers.
  
>  Just out of interest (and I know that this isn't some sort 
>  of mathematical exercise where you have to reach a target), 
>  but roughly how many words did you imagine it coming out 
>  as?


No set limit.  Word length was never really a concern for me.  (In the 
publishing industry it would be a problem, but for electronic web publishing 
I think we're pretty wide open.  Just hope the UA Archive can store the 
sucker.)
  
>  I assume it's going to be set largely in the US, seeing as 
>  most of the people involved appear to be American (though I 
>  could, as usual, be wrong). I don't know about the other 
>  non-Americans involved, but my entire knowledge about 
>  America stems from TV and the very occasional book, and I 
>  always have this fear that I'm going to misrepresent some 
>  aspect of America (I'm chiefly thinking  of the minor 
>  issues here, like the first floor/ground floor thing). 
>  Anyway, I was just wondering (in a sort of zoned-out 
>  post-relation state) whereabouts in America it was going to 
>  be set. Any ideas yet?



Actually, you could set your chapter wherever you want it to be.  Just be 
sure to progress the plot in some way.





-Twist

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