Be sure to save everything you have to cut. You never know when you might use it again. Maybe in some follow-up pieces to your book. Or some anecdotes for your book tour! I can’t wait to read it.
Hi there - keep on truckin' and one day you'll be so thoroughly fed up with it that you must get it off your chest by sending it to the editor... there are no natural cut off points, saturation points or beginnings and ends - it's more tied to the physical state of the author.
In 1940, White published a 1700-page, two volume biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which still considered a standard biography on the great poet.
In 1945, White rescaled his work into a circa 450 page, „Portrait of Shelley,“ which managed to refine details of the poet.
Consider Jerome Frank, who wrote a four or five volume biography, now standard, of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
So, with Joseph Murray, publish what will bring Clara Wieck to life; enrich our understanding of this great composer; and bring a manageable 350-page work on her youth through the 1856-suicide on the Rhine of Robert Schumann.
In a second work - that could be standalone or read in concert with the first volume, comment heavily on her work and her concert career.
In a third volume— which could be read standalone or in concert with the first two — comment on Clara Wieck‘s continuing influence, not least through Johannes Brahms, and treat briefly of the Brahms-Clara Wieck friendship.
Each a manageable 350 pages.
Use all of your saved notes, including in lengthy bibliography.
Be sure to save everything you have to cut. You never know when you might use it again. Maybe in some follow-up pieces to your book. Or some anecdotes for your book tour! I can’t wait to read it.
Looking forward to getting and reading your book. I would be delighted to pre-order.
Hi there - keep on truckin' and one day you'll be so thoroughly fed up with it that you must get it off your chest by sending it to the editor... there are no natural cut off points, saturation points or beginnings and ends - it's more tied to the physical state of the author.
all my best
alice
Sarah Fritz: OMG, there is a channel for one of the true greats in Music — Clara Wieck Schumann. Who could not be moved by her story!
With Joseph Murray, below, you should save all scraps.
What if — just WHAT IF you were meant to write a multivolume work on Clara Wieck?
Take two examples.
Newman Ivey White in 1938 wrote a 420 page, „Unextinguished Hearth — Shelley and his contemporary critics“ (Duke University Press https://archive.org/details/unextinguishedhe02whit/page/n7/mode/2up ).
In 1940, White published a 1700-page, two volume biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which still considered a standard biography on the great poet.
In 1945, White rescaled his work into a circa 450 page, „Portrait of Shelley,“ which managed to refine details of the poet.
Consider Jerome Frank, who wrote a four or five volume biography, now standard, of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
So, with Joseph Murray, publish what will bring Clara Wieck to life; enrich our understanding of this great composer; and bring a manageable 350-page work on her youth through the 1856-suicide on the Rhine of Robert Schumann.
In a second work - that could be standalone or read in concert with the first volume, comment heavily on her work and her concert career.
In a third volume— which could be read standalone or in concert with the first two — comment on Clara Wieck‘s continuing influence, not least through Johannes Brahms, and treat briefly of the Brahms-Clara Wieck friendship.
Each a manageable 350 pages.
Use all of your saved notes, including in lengthy bibliography.