The main changes, in the upgrade, are in the middle of the
book. I wanted to lean it out a bit while at the same time, try to find ways to
make it more exciting. While not giving away too many details, I’ve been working
to solidify the main character’s drive through that part of the novel. I also
have changed a bit of the lead up to the climax because a few readers stated
one part of it slightly confused them and got them out of the story for a
moment. So I wanted to make sure that issue was resolved.
I did some research recently on word count and found that
most Middle Grade books are about 60K words. Jeez, how in the world are people
writing like that? LOL But then I found a few threads on MBs that stated that
generally 20-25% extra is given to those who write fantasy or sci-fi for world
building. (So more like 80 to 90K) I was glad to hear that, I just don’t see a
way to take out 20K words from The Messengers. The story is a sci-fi/fantasy
mix. I personally think it falls more under the dystopian sci-fi banner, but
some of my beta readers have seen it as fantasy. So it is upper middle grade, dystopian
post-apocalyptic sci-fi with fantasy elements. LOL
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