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Meta
as long as it needs to be.
i read Goodnight Moon to my daughter every night. i think it’s 12 pages.
it’s a book.
goodnight bowl of mush.
at least one word. No more than an infinite number of words.
i want to write an 800 page book called Conservation. I want the book to be 12inches by 12 inches. Centered on the 400th page simply– “What?.” The rest of the thing blank.
Just wrote it. Who wants to publish it?
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/an-existential-ontological-proof-of-the-existence-of-god/5616855
A joke by a friend and me
is it blank on the inside?
Last page says Q.E.D. other than that it is blank
you brilliant sun of a bitch.
what about photobooks? abstract comics? comics without words? art books? books filled exclusively with musical notation? books filled exclusively with numbers and symbols? books with no content but pages of homemade paper? books with different colors pages and no content?
it made me giggle and giggle when we came up with it
“joke” or “conceptual writing”?
ooh. burn.
damn!
Okay. At least one page. No more than an infinite number of pages. Better?
my books gonnna be 170 pages, and sometimes when i take it into the shower in the locker room of my local gym i look at over at some of the other people’s books and they’re like 200 pages, and then I talk about how cold the water is.
I think joke. We weren’t being avante garde; just fucking around a bit. Still, I am obsessed with the idea that you can make art from nothing: an empty frame, blank film, a man not playing a piano. These can all be art because art is context. Yes?
“The Madonna of the Future”
two years
A decade with Infinite Jest is not enough. And yet, one hour with The Bridges of Madison County is too much.
14 pp
According to a plurality of publishers, 75 pages is the cutoff between novella and novel. 50-74 pages is definitely a novella. 1-49 pages is a short story.
Writers, however, disagree. They think that short stories and novellas are interchangeable and should be labeled as short novels. These are 1-99 pages. Novels are always 100-1,000 pages.
Critics think both are wrong. For them, the lines are a little more blurry. Short stories are 1-75 pages. Novellas are 50-100 pages. Novels are 75-1,000.
I think that all three groups are right, because book length is totally subjective, you know? So, they’re all right, but, paradoxically, they’re all wrong.
What happens if the book is over 1000 pages?
For that we have to turn to editors. They believe that a novel is between 100 and (symbol for infinity).
that’s what she said
…….ooo………..ooo………
…..o……o……o…….o……
…o……….o..o………..o….
…o……….o..o………..o….
…..o……o……o…….o……
…….ooo………..ooo………
∞
5. the fake ass title page, the real title page, a page, and then the arbitrary two blank pages that come at the end of every book and nobody knows why.
i think, i don’t know if any of this is true, but i think that a bound book has to be a certain amount of pages, divisible by 4, i think. so those blanks at the end are to round things out. also you can take notes on them!
wikipedia says they are called sections, each made up of a number of bifolios.
good info. getting very close to answering adam’s question. or whatever is. interrogative statement.
Those are signatures and depending on the kind of book (trade paperback, mass market, hardcover) and possibly the printer, they usually mean that a book’s pages must be divisible by 8, and any blank pages at the end are inserted to meet that standard. Also on the pragmatic/publishing side: a book’s length and price point are related as is the cost of printing, so theoretically a book has to be long or short enough to be able to be priced in such a way that its sales will be the highest and its printing expenses the lowest. Short books are more expensive to print and so are long books. There’s a kind of maximum economy around 250 or 300 pages I think, if I remember my editorial days well enough. And that is the bloodless, Big Publishing answer.
as long as it needs to be.
i read Goodnight Moon to my daughter every night. i think it’s 12 pages.
it’s a book.
goodnight bowl of mush.
at least one word. No more than an infinite number of words.
i want to write an 800 page book called Conservation. I want the book to be 12inches by 12 inches. Centered on the 400th page simply– “What?.” The rest of the thing blank.
Just wrote it. Who wants to publish it?
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/an-existential-ontological-proof-of-the-existence-of-god/5616855
A joke by a friend and me
is it blank on the inside?
Last page says Q.E.D. other than that it is blank
you brilliant sun of a bitch.
what about photobooks? abstract comics? comics without words? art books? books filled exclusively with musical notation? books filled exclusively with numbers and symbols? books with no content but pages of homemade paper? books with different colors pages and no content?
it made me giggle and giggle when we came up with it
“joke” or “conceptual writing”?
ooh. burn.
damn!
Okay. At least one page. No more than an infinite number of pages. Better?
my books gonnna be 170 pages, and sometimes when i take it into the shower in the locker room of my local gym i look at over at some of the other people’s books and they’re like 200 pages, and then I talk about how cold the water is.
I think joke. We weren’t being avante garde; just fucking around a bit. Still, I am obsessed with the idea that you can make art from nothing: an empty frame, blank film, a man not playing a piano. These can all be art because art is context. Yes?
“The Madonna of the Future”
two years
A decade with Infinite Jest is not enough. And yet, one hour with The Bridges of Madison County is too much.
14 pp
According to a plurality of publishers, 75 pages is the cutoff between novella and novel. 50-74 pages is definitely a novella. 1-49 pages is a short story.
Writers, however, disagree. They think that short stories and novellas are interchangeable and should be labeled as short novels. These are 1-99 pages. Novels are always 100-1,000 pages.
Critics think both are wrong. For them, the lines are a little more blurry. Short stories are 1-75 pages. Novellas are 50-100 pages. Novels are 75-1,000.
I think that all three groups are right, because book length is totally subjective, you know? So, they’re all right, but, paradoxically, they’re all wrong.
What happens if the book is over 1000 pages?
For that we have to turn to editors. They believe that a novel is between 100 and (symbol for infinity).
that’s what she said
…….ooo………..ooo………
…..o……o……o…….o……
…o……….o..o………..o….
…o……….o..o………..o….
…..o……o……o…….o……
…….ooo………..ooo………
5. the fake ass title page, the real title page, a page, and then the arbitrary two blank pages that come at the end of every book and nobody knows why.
wikipedia says they are called sections, each made up of a number of bifolios.
good info. getting very close to answering adam’s question. or whatever is. interrogative statement.
Those are signatures and depending on the kind of book (trade paperback, mass market, hardcover) and possibly the printer, they usually mean that a book’s pages must be divisible by 8, and any blank pages at the end are inserted to meet that standard. Also on the pragmatic/publishing side: a book’s length and price point are related as is the cost of printing, so theoretically a book has to be long or short enough to be able to be priced in such a way that its sales will be the highest and its printing expenses the lowest. Short books are more expensive to print and so are long books. There’s a kind of maximum economy around 250 or 300 pages I think, if I remember my editorial days well enough. And that is the bloodless, Big Publishing answer.
Glad to see the proof of god in here. I have _blank: a novel_, coming out soon from jaded ibis. 200 pages…
Glad to see the proof of god in here. I have _blank: a novel_, coming out soon from jaded ibis. 200 pages…
then you have written the sun
then you have written the sun