by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 18, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
I’ve noticed a lot of people arriving on my blog after searching for tips about word count in memoir. I wrote about this some time ago but feel the need to clarify a few points. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some magic number of words per...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
I hear regularly from people writing memoir. The majority of them want to get published. But despite the dizzying amount of information about the publishing process available online, I’m still – how shall I put it? – impressed by some of the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Popular
Aspiring writers of memoir often ask me about “average” word count for their manuscript. While there’s no secret formula, I usually say that a reasonable range for a memoir would be between 65,000 words and 95,000 words. Below I set out examples of...