I roughly figured it out,

JustSarah · Mar 19, 2014

how to get a story past 9K with a particular type of outlining. One magazine I found serializes novelettes up to 9K.

Would it make it impossible to sell as a short story to a middle grade magazine if all your novelettes turn out around 10K?

I wasn't sure if this was more of a middle grade question, or a questions for the short fiction section.

Drachen Jager · Mar 19, 2014

Have you checked The Grinder?

http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/thegrinder/Default.aspx

They have a pretty good list of markets, payments, and such.

JustSarah · Mar 19, 2014

Oh no I know the magazine I'm looking for, I'm wondering specifically if they will serialize 10,000 words. The guidelines at Cricket for example, specify up to around 9,000 words.

Drachen Jager · Mar 19, 2014

Usually they won't look at stuff that falls outside the guidelines unless they know you.

Jamesaritchie · Mar 20, 2014

Guidelines usually mean what they say. If you serialize a story, you have to say no to other writers, which means readers get less variety. This means very, very few magazines will serialize a story. When the rare one does, it's usually from big name writers only.

CheG · Mar 20, 2014

Yeah- what everyone else said... Check it over and see if you can cut 500-1k words. I know I use a ton of useless extraneous words that can (and are) cut out.

JustSarah · Mar 20, 2014

I think I probably could, though I'd need to figure out a way to make the ending less ... choppy? Abrupt? I'm not sure what you'd call it.:/

I roughly figured it out,

JustSarah

Drachen Jager

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Drachen Jager

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CheG

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