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How many words should a novel be?

>> No.4478581

2 many 4 blacks 2 read

>> No.4478582

Novels are usually 100 000 to 500 000.

>> No.4478780

"a novel" is two words. :^)

>> No.4478784

>>4478581
This.

>> No.4478843

>>4478577
As long as it takes your story to be told.

>> No.4478855

>>4478581
Did you have an aneurism writing this?

>> No.4478902
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4478902

As I recall, anything over 40,000 words is classified as a novel. I think anything below that is a novella. And anything shorter than 1000 is a "short story."

>> No.4479239

>>4478902
>anything shorter than 1000 is a short story

nigga do u even read? short stories can be like 15,000 words. do you even know how long 1,000 words is? it takes like 2mins to read

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4479247

>>4479239
Ever notice how the most generic piece of writing advice out there is to write 1,000 words in a day? Bitches be all like but that's hard.

>mfw I write 4,000 most days

>> No.4479296

>How many words should a novel be?
As many as you like, my little rainbowflake. The length of book is not important, it's what's inside that matters.

>> No.4479377

>>4479296
It's not if you want to get published

>> No.4479395

>>4479377
My snowbow child, publishing norms only exist to control what reaches the public. Such norms, snuggiwuggims, need to be broken in order to usher in the new world where no book will be judged by length, content or typeface.

>> No.4479742

>>4478902

But then whats between 40,000 and 1,000?

It's all subjective anyway.

>> No.4479808

>>4479247
Word, I'm a blogger, I write about 2 articles/day (1500-8000/each) and then I also do work on e-books and other works which I do about 5000 words of everyday lol. Fuck a lazy 'writer'.

>> No.4479900

>>4478577
How many grains of sand make a pile?

>> No.4480462

>>4479900

How many trips kill a board?