About the OELN contest
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Hi! I have some questions
My manuscript is around 100K words... so I have to bring down to 75K right? Am I allowed to outline some plot points to fit the word count?
Does chapters names count.
Also it's a serialized fiction, so I should say that it is Volume 01? And If my Novel won, can I also publish other volumes?
Where can I get support for this?
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@FrenzyWandere
From reading the whole TOC from both this year and the previous-previous one.
I can say,-
Max 75k is the whole volume and ONLY contain the story. Yes you have to compress it to 75k max. If impossible, just cut it on a good part for future next volume
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Last year participants are encouraged to put outline for the whole series. But this years, there's no mention of it. Better not.
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Anything that adds to wordcount is counted. If you put synposis, character profile, and table of contents. Those are counted too.
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Whatever the name name of the first volume are (volume 0, volume ex etc), it's still volume 1.
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Whether you can keep the series going or not depends on the demands. Just any other series by the publisher.
*notes, i'm not jnc staff. If you want to be sure, reply or dm people with #staff tag on their name
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