My target word count for my scifi/horror/fantasy novel is about 100,000, with two sequels planned in the work. I'm not attached to either number, it's just a completely arbitrary way for me to measure progress for book1 while designing literary cohesion with potential book2&3. I plan on going hard on Good Politics™ in the third book, before that it's mostly setup and dog whistles.
Outlines, character sheets, drafts of paragraphs/chapters that haven't had their book/chronology set in stone yet. Wild stuff.
Anyways, unsolicited advice on any aspect of fiction novel writing would be appreciated, no matter how random!
Have there be a gratuitous sex scene half way through the book that doesn’t advance the plot whatsoever, make sure theres no romantic dialogue or anything of a sexual nature before this scene so that it is completely unexpected to the reader. And be particularly graphic, basically write the aristocrats joke.
It worked for midnight cowboy…
this is a really good idea, I will work this in the the fifth to the end paragraph of every chapter.