Note: the listed word counts are approximate. In addition, there is also some debate around which category a few of the books belong to. As you’ll find out when you do your own research, what constitutes a short story, novelette or novella is not always cut-and-dry. ...
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As you can probably guess by now, books come in such a wide variety of lengths, that it is hard to generalize on words in a novel. The minimum word count for a novel is 40,000 words, although some people in the industry will scoff at a book that short. I won’t. The average wo...
Short story: 7,500 words or fewer You might also be familiar with terms like novelette and flash fiction. These are subcategories that refer to stories of specific lengths within these larger categories. A novelette is longer than a short story but shorter than a novella, while flash fiction ...
BORN IN SHADOW… This short novella is a prequel to the series. It tells the legend of how the Shadow Walkers came to be.Cynthia Luhrs
What is a short story? In order to learn how to write short stories effectively, you need to know what they are! A short story ornovellais a piece of fiction generally ranging between 1,500 and 30,000 words. Anything much longer than that, and it’s not a short story. It would be...
16k context length (i.e. 1-2 dozen articles or a short story / novella). Text input / text output. Audio input / output.** The higher your plan type the more you can use our most advanced models. Seethis section belowabout features and limits of those models by plan type for detail...
Don’t rush the process, and if you’re starting to think you’re not yet up to writing a full novel, consider setting it aside and writing something shorter, like a novella or a short story. 7 Edit your novel Once you’ve got a solid second (or subsequent) draft, you still need ...
Short story: under 7,500 words Novelette: 7,500 to 17,500 words Novella: 17,500 to 40,000 words So, in general, your manuscript only needs 40,000 words to qualify as a novel. Many well-known books fall below this threshold, including The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S...