381: Writing and Publishing a Christmas Novel - Interview with Debbie Macomber
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How Long Would a Book Be?
In terms of word count, how long would a typical book be? Versus a christmas book. A typical book is about a hundred thousand words. At christmas books are 50 thousand words. So i's hef wow, like, that's not just like us midd shorter. That's like a tha half. And like to give us some parimeters, like how much shorter? Cause it makes total sense that in a traditional book you would probably write, you know, start with the discovery of the deceit. But how did you decide where to start the book and sort of how to stream line it to keep it at 50 thousand words?
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