Making things shorter
I thought that filling a novel would be hard — how will I ever fill that many pages? — but now I see that’s not quite true. There are limits. I can’t describe everything, because if I don’t focus in enough there’s not going to be much room for a story. If I keep writing 1000-2000 word scenes, then I can only have 30 or so in my novel. That really limits things. If I get too introspective, include too many elements, that really hinders me by making the whole thing too daggone long. So what I really need to do is be more judicious.
Or else write a 200,000-word monster and hack it down to size later. Both options seem daunting.
