Comments on: Melbourne Writers Festival – License to Thrill.

By: Anthony J. Langford

Anthony J. Langford — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:51:05 +0000

Short chapters are definitely a good idea. I use them too. I find when Im reading ill look through the next few pages and if its short, ill keep reading. SHort chapters make me read faster.
ps, im going to kill my robot. Where's my laser gun…

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 06:28:18 +0000

Hi Anthony,

I got some reassurrance from them about short chapters. The last epic manuscript I wrote had chapters ranging from 1200 to 3700 words with a mode average of 1800 words.

You know that robot thingy comes up on your blog when I comment too.

By: Anthony J. Langford

Anthony J. Langford — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:40:57 +0000

ps. I'm still not a robot, but at times, wish I was.

By: Anthony J. Langford

Anthony J. Langford — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:40:32 +0000

Sounds like a interesting session. I remember Terry Hayes's name from those MM films. (A page per minute of screen time is the old edict for screenplays. Not short enough for Brucky, clearly).

Each to their own I suppose, in terms of methodology of writing. Whatever works I guess. They both give good advice, though depressing that if you're a man, you clearly dont matter as much. Pretty much true in terms of media coverage of war zones, crimes etc. Something women's libbers have probably never considered.