However, there are other genres available for books with a lower word count range. Let’s take a look at categories of books that contain fewer than 40,000 words. Novel: 40,000+ words (though you’re better off above 50,000 words) Novella: 17,500-40,000 words Novelette: 7,500-20,...
butword count can be as low as 1,000. A story more than 7,500 words but less than 17,000, on the other hand, is what you call a novelette. This term might be familiar to you, and it is often interchanged with the longer form, novella. Novellas are lengthier than novelettes but...
1. Not everyone uses the term "novelette." Some people lump novelettes in with short stories. 2. By most people's standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel. In most genres, 50,000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70,000...
The average wordcount for submissions during this window was approximately 4,800, but the most popular length was 2,000 or 3,000 words. Prior to increasing our upper limit, the average length was a steady 4,600. There are clearly more short stories in circulation than novelettes (stories be...
For each book, we derive the danger and power time series for both the original text as well as an ensemble of shuffled versions. By comparing the variances of the resulting IMFs of the time series obtained from the original text to those of the shuffled texts, we find that shorter books...
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories reveals the author’s extraordinary talent in a variety of forms—prose poems, short stories, sketches, allegories, and novelettes—and showcases the straight–faced humor, startling psychological insight, and haunting imagination for which he is revered as a ...