How to Make Your Novel Shorter if Your Book is too Long

      Most writers can't imagine that a book being too long could be a problem, right?  The truth is it can be.  There are a lot of traditional publishers that don't like to see books over 1,000 pages long.  Now, if you are planning on self-publishing this could still be a problem.  You might be wonder why.  This could spell to the average reader that this book might be self-published, especially if the story has repeated, redundancies in its writing.  What this means is that certain information is constantly repeated over and over again, or there are a lot of run-on sentences.  This could happen a lot in stories that are too long.

     Here is a video below that might help you with trimming your story down.

    Here is another video that talks about 29 words that you should probably think about cutting from your novel.

     So when writing your fiction novel these are just some things you should think about and consider when you edit the first draft of your book.  Believe it or not, there really isn't a right or wrong to this as long as you are giving your readers the best quality you can give them.

     In my next blog entry, I'm going to answer a question that I received from one of my readers who told me that they wanted to write a book, but they weren't sure if they were cut out for this thing called writing.

     So stay tuned!