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Everything you need to know about novel word counts


Everything you need to know about novel word counts

Yes, word count matters. Yes, having a book that is overly short or overly long for its genre will incrementally decrease your odds of finding traditional ...

Word Count Guide: How Long Is a Book, Short Story, or Novella?

Anything over 110,000 words is considered too long for a fiction novel. Each book in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy has an ...

How Long Should a Book Be? — Word Count For Books Explained

ADULT NOVELS: COMMERCIAL & LITERARY ... Between 80,000 and 89,999 words is a good range you should be aiming for. This is a 100% safe range for ...

How Many Words in a Novel? (Updated for 2024) - Reedsy

What are the standard word counts by genre? · Fantasy & Sci-Fi: 100,000–115,000 words · Mystery & Thriller: 80,000–100,000 words · Literary Fiction ...

What's a good word count for books? : r/writing - Reddit

From what I've read elsewhere and heard from agents, for Traditional publishing a novel is typically around 100k words. Maybe 70k to 90k words ...

Word Count: Why Your Book Should Be This Long - Tiffany Hawk

They usually know their genre's word-count standards (most often between 75,000-95,000 words), but they wonder if they can get away with a ...

How do you decide on a word count for your novel? - Quora

Deciding a word count before you finish the work is how to break that goal, either by doing everything you want with less words than you ...

Word Count - BookEnds Literary Agency

First and foremost, what length should your book be? My answer is when in doubt think 80,000 words, give or take. I don't think that you can ever go wrong with ...

What is your novel's word count, and how important is it?

If you have a kick-ass book, no one's going to care if it's 40,000 words or 140,000 words. All the artificial word-count parameters were set by ...

How Many Words in a Novel? Word Counts by Genre | The Blog

However, you must be careful not to let all that world-building stand in the way of your plot and pace, and so for a debut, we suggest you don't ...

What Is the Best Novel Length? - Alyssa Matesic

For adult novels, I find the ideal range to be between 60,000 and 90,000 words. If you are writing adult fiction, you should also consider which ...

How Many Words in a Book? Your Guide to Book Word Counts

Average novel word counts are generally around 85,000 but they can range from 50,000 to 120,000. Sometimes they're shorter — The Lion, The Witch ...

How Many Words Are There In A Novel? - Jericho Writers

So 75,000 words is fine as a lower limit, but anything up to 120,000 words is unproblematic. Truth is, as long as you make sure every single word counts, you ...

How Many Words in a Novel? (Guide to 18 Genres) - The Write Life

And what's the average length of other types of books? Before diving into the specifics of genre-based word counts, let's look at the broader ...

How Many Words in a Novel: The Perfect Word Count for Your ...

Right now, when it comes to novel-length word count, it's all about 90,000 words. Virtually every book I try to shop by a debut author that's ...

How many words in a novel? Average word count for books by genre

You might think a novel can be any length you like: as long as it needs to be to tell the story. But size matters. Any author who has had their editor ask them ...

Book Word Count Guide 2023: How Many Words Per Page in a Book

The average single-spaced manuscript typed in the 12-point font has roughly 500 words per page, however, this varies a lot depending on how you arrange it.

How Long Should a Book Be? Here's Your Word Count Guide

For first-time writers, the general rule is a debut novel should land between 80,000 and 100,000 words. 50,000 is considered a minimum novel ...

Word Count Guidelines - BookEnds Literary Agency

Picture Books: 0-1000 words; ideal length around 600 words · Chapter Books: 5,000-15,000 words; ideal length around 10,000 words · Middle Grade: ...

Word Count | GEORGE L THOMAS

Novel – 40,000 Words and Over · Novella – 17,000 – 40,000 Words · Novelette – 7,500 – 17,500 Words · Short Story – Under 7,500 Words · Flash Fiction ...


Crime and Punishment

Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOTvLzQlJfdAMLmy1EyeJ-OKbL7fwOaXal-kESGejiBo2Mxp5o

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume.

Anne of Green Gables

Novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT08IgW0g22baQ9yjU7SJBVA43v7kZBNGwQjF3snDv5naBFR7vY

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century.

Oliver Twist

Novel by Charles Dickens https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-tuROSdGdSYankohQM7ppZ9yOOokJmRO6vqs-MUCOr8JWvxPE

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Novel by Mark Twain https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5ZcL5K_QWn35IvLB_-eT_0CL1KbHoR8tyZBILiVm5XBpJ5hPH

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Novel by Mark Twain https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxBvkHuActJlfcVQjuQtNKlOlasbpqaoJaATaPZWgydYXxXbTx

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a picaresque novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn.

The Call of the Wild

Novel by Jack London https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzl7hFbnP_nvBxIbWuxZcvsypU_S9SqM89ylKpN6sWoi_Aciud

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.