#WritersCoffeeClub 14: Do you have a sense of how much plot you need for how long a manuscript?
What works for me is seeing how many scenes I've got. If I'm trying to reach a specific word count, like 50k for NaNoWriMo, 60k for a paperback release with my publisher, then at some point I'll just make a big list of all the scenes/events. The magic number is 30, (assuming an average of 2k words per scene) where I think, yeah, that's enough material to start building an outline on.
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