5 Reasons Your Novel Manuscript Is Too Long

Writing lessons learned from rejections

Hamna Labeeb
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readMar 13, 2020

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When we love something, we all tend to linger with it a little longer. Many times, just as much I wanted to finish a story, I have dreaded the time when I am no longer writing it and living in it. This is almost like an obsession we want to entertain if possible, but we have more books to write, don’t we?

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