It turns out, that I’m an idiot. And I’ve probably been one from early age.
This may not be as much of a surprise to some of you as I’d like, but I’m going to ignore that and explain myself anyway. I’m an idiot because I’ve singularly failed to do the one thing that every writer should do. That thing is research.
A lack of research leads to confusion. Confusion over what you’re writing and, more importantly, confusion about whom you’re writing for.
In my case, I got confused because there seems to be no agreement between different publishers, bookshops and agents when it comes to reading age and word counts. One group will tell you it’s 5-7 years and 2000 words. Another will say 5-9 and 5000 words. Then there’s bloody Roald Dahl and Andy Stanton and their 20,000 worders that appear in both the 5-8 and 9-12 sections. [read more...]
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