Books of the Month Word Count for Mystery & Thrillers Sharp Objectsby Gillian Flynn80,565 The Surgeonby Tess Gerritsen98,039 The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins101,704 View all genres and ranges Word Count for Debut Novels Fight ClubChuck Palahniuk49,962 ...
The exception to the rule, as with adult books, is YA fantasy word count. Fantasy books can always be longer. That is likely because the reader has the world-building to absorb in addition tothe charactersandthe plot. Hi-lo books This is an interesting category, and one that most people...
target_languages array of string Target language codes of your project. Language codes are available here: http://api.motaword.com/languages word_count word_count integer Total word count of your files in this project. We base our quotes on the number of words you are ordering for trans...
In one case, a fantasy book was in the top 25 best sellers with approximately 42,000 words (less than half of the average length for this category). Word count matters, but rules can still be broken! To answer the commonly asked question: Are 70,000 words enough for a novel? 70,000...
Word count for books by genre There’s no single answer to how many words in a novel. While80,000is anaverageword length for anaveragenovel (is there such a thing?), when it comes to specific genres of fiction there is somevariation[118]. Certain genres –epic[119]fantasy fiction[120...
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Genre: Adult Fantasy Working Title: Where the Ether Flows Word Count: Incomplete (real Pitch Slam entries have to be finished and polished) Pitch: Necromancer Devan is drawn back into his family’s strife when attacked by his father’s minions. The deeper he gets drawn in, the greater the...
While quantitative methods have been used to examine changes in word usage in books, studies have focused on overall trends, such as the shapes of narratives, which are independent of book length. We instead look at how words change over the course of a book as a function of the number of...
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There are always exceptions, of course. Page counts, on the other hand, are for printed books. Designers and production editors use a manuscript’s word count to estimate how many pages the published book will be, taking into account how they want it to look: how large the pages will be...