I received a request awhile ago to do a post on word counts for different age categories in children's lit. Since opinions vary greatly, I did some research to verify the numbers in my head. This is what I came away with. Though, please note that most of the sources I found had sl...
For example, Acrobat splits hyphenated words into two, so "right-handed" will count as two words, while Word counts it as one. If you can share a sample file that demonstrates this issue we can look more closely into it, but if Word behaves the way you're looking for, just export ...
If you liked Electric Literature’s Game of Books infographic that compared the length of A Song of Ice and Fire to classic novels, you might enjoy this infographic created for Cartridge Discount. The graphic looks at the length of some famous novels, poems, and plays from literary history. ...
Made specifically for writing books. While Microsoft Word gets more and more difficult to use the bigger your document gets, Scrivener gets more and more useful as your document grows. That's mainly because of its “binder feature,” which is a simple but game-changing advance for word proces...
Have you ever wondered what the longest and shortest books of the Bible are? The Bible ismore than 600,000 words longin its original languages—but how are those words distributed across the 66 books of the Bible? I’ve put together word counts for every book of the Bible.These numbers ...
Want to know how many words you should be aiming for? Here are the average word counts[1]by genre[2].How many words in a novel? And what about non-fiction? Size matters. You need to know the length …
That said, there are plenty of books with 30 or 40 chapters. And some books, usually with very short chapters, can have 50+. There’s no “right” answer to this question. The standard conventions I’ll lay out in this post aren’t unbreakable rules written in stone. You should always...
For example, Acrobat splits hyphenated words into two, so "right-handed" will count as two words, while Word counts it as one. If you can share a sample file that demonstrates this issue we can look more closely into it, but if Word behaves the way you're looking for, just export ...