I have just returned from a meeting with my editor. He has been editing the Sci-fi book – Sorting the future – which I wrote while away on my voyage to South America.
The book weighs in at just over 50,000 words which makes it too long for a short story and too short for a novel. It is a novella.
I was in two minds as to whether to develop the characterisation and description to make it weightier and give more gravity as a novel or to keep it shorter, less detailed and zippier.
My editor through that I should keep it largely as it is. He liked the fast pace and light touch. It is better as a novella rather than a novel.
That is what I am going to do. There were a number of areas he wanted me to develop and a postscript to the ending. I shall work on that over the next week or so.
So thank you to Chris Moody for the ideas and time spent correcting, editing and improving my draft. You’re a star!