A.C. Strange
Hi, I hope I've posted this message in the correct forum ...
I'm writing a story in the tradition of the old hero pulps like The Shadow and Doc Savage. But, I'm not exactly sure how long my story should be.
Lester Dent (aka, Kenneth Robson, who wrote Doc Savage) once did a break down of storyline structure for his pulp stories as 4 units of 1,500 word sections. Hence, his stories are supposedly 6,000 words long. Here's a link to his breakdown ... http://www.miskatonic.org/dent.html
I find this hard to believe, though. Shadow stories were 80 pages (can't remember Doc Savage, but I'm sure it's the same). I have some of Walter Gibson's stories saved as MS Word documents. One in particular counted by MS Word comes out to almost 40,000 words.
Can anyone help me out with the discrepency between what MS Word is counting of a Shadow pulp story and what Lester Dent is counting for his pulp story breakdown?
Thanks ...
A.C.
I'm writing a story in the tradition of the old hero pulps like The Shadow and Doc Savage. But, I'm not exactly sure how long my story should be.
Lester Dent (aka, Kenneth Robson, who wrote Doc Savage) once did a break down of storyline structure for his pulp stories as 4 units of 1,500 word sections. Hence, his stories are supposedly 6,000 words long. Here's a link to his breakdown ... http://www.miskatonic.org/dent.html
I find this hard to believe, though. Shadow stories were 80 pages (can't remember Doc Savage, but I'm sure it's the same). I have some of Walter Gibson's stories saved as MS Word documents. One in particular counted by MS Word comes out to almost 40,000 words.
Can anyone help me out with the discrepency between what MS Word is counting of a Shadow pulp story and what Lester Dent is counting for his pulp story breakdown?
Thanks ...
A.C.