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Episode 7: Maggie Shipstead, Author of Great Circle, Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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Is This a Novel?

It would be criticised for more than 600 pages, a lot of people would say it's too long. We write because you don't know how it would be received if it was longer. I knew the total word count, but until i had to sort of convert it to word, i didn't know how many pages it wast what was the word count when first finished the draft? Ah, i'm thinking, what about 900 pages? 300 thousand words. It was 900 pages. And you printed this all out, so you got the big stack of paper to make it look really imposing. I had to carry it like a boxwas two rens of paper? Was ten. Yes.

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