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,...
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...
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...
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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 ...
Some stories simply need more time. The ideas need breathing room, or the author needs time to develop the skills to write it. I took my novelette “Wind Will Rove” to the Sycamore Hill peer workshop in 2015, then put it aside for a year before revising it. The advice at the work...