Okay so what you need to do is keep focused on your vision and make sure you sell it properly in your query letter when you send your submissions package in. The letter is where you sell yourself long enough to get them to read the manuscript or at least a synopsis so you have to make your brief story blurb in the letter perfect. That is when you pitch it as if you were Stephen King or some other famous author. You know what their books are all about. Try to sell yours with the same idea in mind even if you have to tweak the lines a little to portray it in its best light.

Oddly enough, it is not the actual manuscript or the synopsis that urges them to consider your work. It is the intro letter known as the query letter. You hook them with that you will make them read what they won't read if they don't get hooked by your letter. What that means is that there is nothing wrong with your story, its the way you are selling it to them that is the problem. You need to have someone else who has read your story write up a brief blurb as to what they think the story is about in their opinion. Get as many of these from various friends who might do you a favor and then you meditate on what they have said. It is one way to achieve inspiration by knowing what impression you have created in the mind of the reading critic which is the general public who would eventually pick up the book and read it. Hope his helps. 8-)

Ya I know all about the Query letter and Synopsis process. I've already started an dbeen down that road for a bit now! lol But thanks for the input.

Well I know that you can download your book here, no matter how long it is.
As for those agents, I say keep on looking until you find agents who are happy with your book being as long as it is.

One can learn so much doing research. There are books with more info. I loved the movie too, but they tend to change reality for the entertainment business.

http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html

http://history-world.org/troy.htm

http://www.hector.com/listingview.php?listingID=15

http://www.stfrancis.edu/content/historyinthemovies/troy.htm

You're wonderful Cavlaster. i appreciate ur contribution. But really, i may love this films, the myths and it's legends, but never should one allow intractability of a story overwhelm his/her emotions.
thanks all d same, i'll check those links u gave me.

It's not HOW you end it what is important, but WHERE you end it. The readers don't what to be caught off guard, and end up saying dissatisfied, "Is that it?" Nor do you want your readers to have been dragged during a tale to give a cheap and lame ending. Many use Epilogues. We as the writer sometimes get too carried away with our characters we end up wanting to give too much info, making a large book. In our rewrites, editing and polishing, we will have to choose what should be cut off to shorten it. I know it isn't easy because we rather have our readers know all. But we need to focus on a need to know basis. If I were your DR (dedicated reader)I can easily give you suggestions in how to end it, but because I am not, then I can only hope you focus in what your gut and muse tell you. You have to ensure the your ending is perfect for your tale, it's the last piece of the puzzle, and it needs to fit just right. I always suggest reading books that fit the genre of your work, observe how they ended theirs and use a similar tactic. Like I have a series I'm working on, my goal is to leave a happy ending for the main characters but also leave an unresolved issue that eventually will let my readers know, 'this isn't over yet'. And I also leave some unanswered questions that will be answered in other books. For example, in my first book concerning the best friend of my main character readers will ask themselves, how is it that she knew a word she never uttered in her life? Why doesn't her father tell her who he is? Why her father didn't raise her? Why is her father determined never to fall in love again? And will her father ever find another lifemate? Those questions are answered in book 2 of my series.
If you give me a synopsis of your story I may be able to run some ideas by you. ;-)

I haven't posted my 133k and I'm in here. LOL.

I'll hang on in there then. :)

Sounds to me like you are well on your way to the 100,000+ words book writer. Once 100,000 words comes with ease writing more than that is a peace of cake once you assassinate publishing tradition that demands you keep your writing within their budget. If a writer listened to the bottom line all the time, a writer would no longer be a writer...a writer would be someone's bitch without an ounce of respect for the talent to write that makes being a writer a worthwhile occupation in the first place. Welcome to the club of prolific writers. We're a brilliant lot don't you think?

Hi there,

Seems you are far more experienced with publishers that this humble writer. I get all the hard work done of writing a novel and then fall down at the end - I never push it hard enough. Please teach me.

I guess I am in the right place at the right moment with the right people after reading all your insightful comments. They are all enlightening. But I wonder what this 100,000 words limit really means to other writers. To me, there can be no limit to a true writer's imaginative dimensions. I would find it rather constrained to sacrifice depth for brevity or imposed limitation.

Sometimes the stories we write choose their own writers as a medium of expression. You start a story on your own, all of a sudden, it takes its own pace and direction. Sometimes these ideas come not due to our own conscious efforts of brainstorming but they come in powerful torrents out their own volition. That is why some other times we struggle to write but lack the drive or inspiration to do so.

The spirit of creativity behind the story plot that actually propels the story into conflicts can be very spontaneous. It is rather remarkable to imagine the awesome power of creativity in the hands of creative writers. Apart from intellectual stimulation, it also extends into the realm of spiritual depths. That is why we have internal and external conflicts.

You do not actually have the power to decide who dies or stays alive in the story. Writers also deal with their personal internal and external conflicts to in order to arrive at a resolution quite different from the ones in the books they write. A balance must be stricken. The spirit behind the story does that. Who can really fathom that creative essence? Perhaps, God after creating everything on earth, including humans had deliberately left it halfway so that we humans can also share in the exhilarating joys of creativity.

As far as I am concerned, no limit can be placed on any creative dimension. The only way out I guess, is to write in series. JK Rowling’s Harry Porter series bear me witness to that. The story was meant to be in seven series but ended up more than that. Her fans were not bored. They rather wait anxiously for her next series. In the first one hour of its release it sold more 12 million copies worldwide. Today JK Rowling is the considered the 12th richest person in the world. It all depends on the ingenuity of the writer concerned. I also have novels spanning three generations that has to be shelved between a handful of series. I guess there is no limit to that.
All I have to say is KEEP RIGHTING! Yes, just keep writing, especially when the story propels you on its own volition. Perhaps a time may come when you lack the drive and inspiration to do so. Well, nothing may happen. Just that the story may choose another writer as a vehicle to come out to be told. Make no mistake about that.
I wish you all GOOD LUCK and inspiration. Remember, there can be no limit to your creativity. Have belief in your potentials. The sky is not even a limit because I believe writers’ creativity is a bundle of possibilities. :-D

So well said, Sakpongba! I don't think I can add anything to what you so eloquently said above. There is no limit to true creativity, and it is sometimes sad to have to end a story just to fit in with some commercial medium. I hope your own work is so successful.
L.A

I guess I have found the right group alright. Like Marion, I have so much to say when I write that I just have to allow those who enjoy long tomes to know everyone of my thoughts.
I always find myself asking questions, being left wondering and frustrated when a writer had not described a character thoroughly; and sometimes what some of those characters should have obviously said but did not say...
There is nothing like a good long book. That is why I like J.K. Rowling's works so much. She knows how to go into details.
Well you should check my effort here, it is massive.
Desiree