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| Jul 15, 2017 at 15:36 | comment | added | Erin McLeod | Hello Neil: Thanks for the Welcome! It's great to be here. The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall is widely available, and allows for the planning of a novel scene by scene in its entirety prior to writing. He also has analyzed works in various genres, e.g. thrillers, and averaged their lengths. Thrillers turned out to be 120,000 words. This can then be broken down into scenes, and a novel of that length contains 96 sections or scenes. This information may be helpful to DoctorWhom. | |
| Jul 14, 2017 at 1:06 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Welcome, Erin! Can you tell us more about the Marshall plan? I'm guessing you don't mean the post-WWII program. Also, I love your knitting metaphor. | |
| Jul 13, 2017 at 18:20 | history | answered | Erin McLeod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |