{"id":1068,"date":"2015-09-05T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writing-geeks.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2015-09-05T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:23:59","slug":"how-long-is-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/how-long-is-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Is A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0099ff;\">How Long Is A Novel?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before the advent of ebooks, modern fiction writers concerned themselves chiefly with two lengths:<br \/>\n<em>long<\/em> (novels) and <em>short<\/em> (short stories).<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of digital publishing, the terms <em>novella<\/em> and <em>novelette<\/em> have taken on a new significance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0099ff;\">Novel (noun)<\/span><\/strong> : an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0099ff;\">How long is \u201cconsiderable length\u201d?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On average, a printed novel contains about 80,000 words. For some genres, like mystery, the minimum may go as low as 40,000 in the guidelines for some contests, but 60,000 is probably a more marketable length.<\/p>\n<p>In the old days, writers estimated word count by figuring 250 words per page. According to this way of calculating, a 70,000-word book corresponds to about 175 printed pages; one with 125,000 words, 312 pages. Now, word processors keep a running total for the writer.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: A printed paperback may have as many as 400 words per page, depending upon font size and book dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>Length matters in a book that has a spine to which pages must be attached. Print publishers rarely accept books that are excessively short or excessively long. Digital publishing, on the other hand, is not constrained by size.<\/p>\n<p>Some readers love long novels; others don\u2019t. Novelists who publish digitally can help readers find what they are looking for by categorizing their works according to length:<\/p>\n<p><strong>novel<\/strong>: 60,000 words and above<br \/>\n<strong>novella<\/strong>: 20,000 to 50,000 words<br \/>\n<strong>novelette<\/strong>: 7,500 to 20,000 words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Long Is A Novel? Before the advent of ebooks, modern fiction writers concerned themselves chiefly with two lengths: long (novels) and short (short stories). With the advent of digital publishing, the terms novella and novelette have taken on a new significance. Novel (noun) : an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/long-novel.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/long-novel.jpg?fit=800%2C521&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-he","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}