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- From: kja2192@tamsun.tamu.edu (Kevin Alexander)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: A question about ms's.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.022237.24274@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:22:37 GMT
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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- It sure is good to see this newsfeed, I've been looking for this (or
- something like this) for over a week. I have a question for you mega-
- novelists-to-be concerning style for manuscript submissions. Is it ac-
- ceptable for your novel, story, or whatever to switch from first per-
- son to third througout? I am writing what I think could be a good sto-
- ry (then again who here would say they're writing a bad one?) but I
- have come to a point fairly early on that I feel the need to start al-
- ternating between first and third person. I ask this because I hear my
- high school teacher in the back of my head saying "No, no, no."
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- How big or small of a novel's submission are editors looking for?
- 80,000 words? 100,000? I ask this because many of the paperbacks out
- there seem to all be approximately equivalent in size 300-350pp.
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- Your comments are greatly appreciated.
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- Kevin Alexander
- Texas A&M University
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