I would prefer plain text, or at least dramatically more compact. I find glowfic, including this one, to be borderline unreadable because of the format.
It’s not just the format for me. Glowfic is really diluted and lack direction (as expected in a collaboration/improvisation). Consequently it tends to say in 10^6 words what could have been said in half as many.
I tend to think that when your novel is twice the length of the Lord of the Rings and counting it is probably a bit too long.
When something is a million words long, you should probably be thinking of it like a series rather than a single novel.
But it’s not crazy for a series to be that long; for comparison, that’s about the length of Harry Potter (the original 7-book series, not HPMOR). A Song of Ice and Fire is up to around 1.8 million (and counting).
I would prefer plain text, or at least dramatically more compact. I find glowfic, including this one, to be borderline unreadable because of the format.
It’s not just the format for me. Glowfic is really diluted and lack direction (as expected in a collaboration/improvisation). Consequently it tends to say in 10^6 words what could have been said in half as many.
I tend to think that when your novel is twice the length of the Lord of the Rings and counting it is probably a bit too long.
When something is a million words long, you should probably be thinking of it like a series rather than a single novel.
But it’s not crazy for a series to be that long; for comparison, that’s about the length of Harry Potter (the original 7-book series, not HPMOR). A Song of Ice and Fire is up to around 1.8 million (and counting).