Quote: Marc P @ August 1 2010, 10:47 AM BSTI have one to deliver tomorrow at about the 73 K mark I should think,
Have you started it yet?
How To Write A Novel Page 2
I've written the beginning and the end. 
The middle bit doesn't really matter anyway does it.
Add in a butler, job done.
Shit - I forgot about the butler!
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2010, 9:49 AM BSTYes, if you are Thomas Mann, feel free to write another Death in Venice.
That's fecking tiny. The lazy bastard.
80 pages ain't tiny.
(Unlike some of the fan-fiction it has inspired.)
Well it's the skinniest book on my bookshelf, by far.
Quote: JohnnyD @ August 1 2010, 11:38 AM BST80 pages ain't tiny.
It seems pretty slim for a novel to me. More a novella.
It is definitely a novella.
Quote: zooo @ August 1 2010, 12:06 PM BSTWell it's the skinniest book on my bookshelf, by far.
My edition comes "Together With Two Other Stories".
A quick scan of my shelves suggests the skinniest is "The Outsider".
I tried writing a book once, but quickly realised it would take a long time and a lot of effort; being the lazy sort, this did not chime with my preferred lifestyle of lounging around doing very little, being fed peeled grapes by small boys.
Quote: JohnnyD @ August 1 2010, 12:13 PM BSTA quick scan of my shelves suggests the skinniest is "The Outsider".
I liked that. I tried to read 'The Plague' afterwards, but got fed up with it and stopped.
I have it on my shelf, not as yet read it.
Gatsby was a slim read as well as I recall.
Surely there's enough novel been written? Why write more?
Quote: chipolata @ August 1 2010, 12:23 PM BSTSurely there's enough novel been written? Why write more?
The same goes for comedy scripts, set us all an example Chip and stop.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 1 2010, 12:25 PM BSTThe same goes for comedy scripts, set us all an example Chip and stop.
You clearly haven't read one of my scripts if you think they have comedy in.