MadameX

120,000 words is a really big novel, somewhere on the lines of an epic fantasy. YA is usually 60-75,000, romance is around there, mystery is 70-90,00 and both fantasy and ...

The main character of my story lives in futuristic India. She's the last Kumari Devi , which is a tradition where a young girl is chosen as a reincarnated goddess ...

I don't know where you got that thing about Earth, but it's absolutely untrue. That said, the general rules for sci-fi are this: SF can take place in the future ...

I'm actually going through this exact same phase right now; having to completely rewrite a novel I spent 2 1/2 years on. This is what has been working for me: ...

If you google "average height" and click on the wikipedia entry, you can find average heights for males, females, different ethnicities, etc.

I may do this, but not for a novel, instead 50,000 words of articles and essays (I'm working on breaking into the freelance buisness).

I don't really 'plan' so to speak, but I always have some sort of starting point, either a character, or a scene. Then I have a basic mental map of ...