Novelists claim that an average person dreams of writing a novel. However true this is, I don’t know, but sounds like they were off the curve some.
Well, penning a bestseller may be any Tom, Dick, and Harry’s (or Mary, Jane, and Penny’s) wildest wet dream, soon forgotten once they wake the hell up…
Online publishing is the way to go these days: unless one is a prophet of doom and sees an Internet Armageddon where the entire World Wide Web will be totally wiped out.
Manuscript length depends on word count. Most genres have expected word lengths, which have been driven by audiences—in terms of their own expectations of the genre, as well as professional expectation.