I’m still working hard to remove words. So far I don’t think I’ve done much damage to the story, though it might read a better with some more description and details. At some point, I’ll have to delete some scenes that I think will hurt the story, those will be some painful cuts. Now I’ve heard that I shouldn’t make changes that I think will make the novel worse, but if it’s too long for an agent or publisher to even look at it, I don’t know what good it will do to leave in those scenes that nobody will see.
If I take good scenes out, I’ll still have them available to me and I do think I’ll put them back in there for my own purposes. Is being pragmatic worth potentially doing damage to my creation? I think it’s a difficult question, but I’ve decided to go with being pragmatic. I’d like to share this thing I’ve created and getting published would be the best path to doing that. A PDF on my website likely won’t get noticed. Of course, the odds of getting published aren’t very good, but I don’t think I should make it that much harder by exceeding the length that publishers want.
Maybe E-publishing will help loosen up those sizes a little since it will factor out the cost of printing the bigger book, but there is still the cost of editing those extra words. I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s going to change things very dramatically for awhile yet.
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