I just finished the first draft, and it's a lot shorter than I was aiming for. A lot. Is there any way 16,000 words (64 MS pages) would interest an agent as young MG? Or should I start looking for things to beef up (or possibly all it something else?
Way Too Short?
- Thread starter Elektra
- Start date
Actually that doesn't sound impossible for a young MG. There's quite a lot of flexibility in that age range.
MG
I wouldn't say 16K is impossibly short, but I would say it's going to be a tougher sale. Even MGs usually considered very short hit the 25K mark. But I don't think 26K is unheard of.
I wouldn't say 16K is impossibly short, but I would say it's going to be a tougher sale. Even MGs usually considered very short hit the 25K mark. But I don't think 26K is unheard of.
Well, don't call it something else, since I believe your MCs are ten-year-old boys, and the tone, too, has something to do with it being MG rather than early chapter book. Early chapter books do have MCs as ten-year-olds, but the words, sentences, thoughts, are different, and geared more toward the 6-9 year old set, generally speaking.Elektra said:
That said, 16,000 is short. Put the ms. aside, don't look at it for at least two weeks, then revisit it. Where can you beef-it-up properly? My ms. originally came in at 22,000 words when I started getting interest from agents. I was told, though, that that's short, but do-able.
Last edited: