how many words in a novel
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What is the ideal word count for a non-fiction book in the business sector? 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 literary, mainstream, women’s, romance, mystery, suspense, thriller and horror. Anything in this word count won’t scare off any agent anywhere. Now, speaking broadly, you can have as few as 71,000 words and as many as 109,000 words. That is the total range.
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Minimum (realistic) word count of non-fiction book Minimum (realistic) word count of non-fiction book. What is a reasonable estimate for the minimum length, in word count, for a non-fiction book? I'd guesstimate that non-fiction books generally (yes, this is very rough) run perhaps 150-450 pages, and at about 350 wd/page that works out to something like 50-150k words. (Correct me if I am off here).
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Word Count: How Many Words In a Novel? Why You Should Write to Word Count. Right now I’m obsessed with a novel/web serial called, Worm. It’s by an author who goes by the pen name Wildbow. The novel is 1.75 million words long, the equivalent of about 7,000 pages, give or take. When I first opened it on my Kindle, it said it would take 110 hours to read.
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How long should my chapter be? A single word page - Is ~500 words, going up to as much as 800 or as low as 400. A single wattpad page is ~800 words. A single novel page runs from 200-400 words, heavily influenced by the size of font, book, etc... A chapter size can range from 1000-7000 words. A good average is 2000-3000 words. If you are writing young adult that can go smaller, if you writing advance technical stuff that can go bigger.
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- Making the world better, one answer at a time. Typical novels are about 260 pages, 65,000 words, and 18 chapters, about 14 pages a chapter. But for suspense novels you'll be going up into 50's and even to 90 chapters with only 3-4 pages a chapter.Romance novels have less chapters with typically more pages per chapter.But really, chapters really depend.But a novel should be about 65,000 words and the chapters shouldn't go over 20 pages unless your writing something historical.aking the world better, one answer at a time. Typical novels are about 260 pages, 65,000 words, and 18 chapters, about 14 pages a chapter. But for suspense novels you'll be going up into 50's and even to 90 chapters with only 3-4 pages a chapter.
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Young Adult/ New Adult Word Counts #1. Publishing Experience:None in fiction. Okay, so while I was writing my book I kept a young adult audience in mind. Almost everything that I saw online said that a young adult novel should be between 50-70,000 words MAX. I was warned repeatedly that anything over 70,000 words was simply too long for a first novel in the young adult genre.
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- If you are insisting that on average a page is 500 words or 4,000 words the equivalent of 8 pages. By simple math you saying the average book is 80,000-120,000 words, would mean on average a novel is 160-240 pages. These would be classified as short novels or more so novels for older kids or younger teens.
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Writing Fiction Some publishers, especially in genres like romance, have requirements as uniform as a muffin tin: Each manuscript will be long enough to fill a book of exactly so many pages. Others are far more flexible. In the days of the typewriter, a double-spaced page with 1-inch margins would hold an average of 250 words.So you could assume that since 4 pages = 1000 words, 240 pages = 60,000 words, which was the typical length for most mainstream and mystery novels.he number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre. A young-adult novel will run between 20,000 and 40,000 words. That would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction. Many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing.
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- Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: It depends entirely on what font, what size font, and what size paper those 100,000 words are printed on. Typically, I have found, there are about 350 words per page in a novel. So at that count, 100,000 words comes out to approximately 286 pages.Some large print books dip down into the 250 words per page range, though, and at that count, a 100,000 word novel makes for 400 pages.est Answer: It depends entirely on what font, what size font, and what size paper those 100,000 words are printed on. Typically, I have found, there are about 350 words per page in a novel.
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What is the ideal word count for a non-fiction book in the business sector? What writers fail to see is that for every successful exception to the rule (e.g., a first-time 175,000-word novel), there are at least 100 failures if not 300. Almost always, high word count means that the writer simply did not edit their work down enough. Or—it means they have two or more books combined into one.
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Advice From The Pros Big novel-over 100,000 words (a significant investment by the publisher). Epic Novel - 150K+ (Think Lord of the Rings, Gone With The Wind, etc.). Manuscript page count is relatively unimportant, since it is word count that seems to drive the whole process.If you're using courier new font, divide each of the above by 250 to get the number of double-spaced pages you would submit. Actual publication pages will vary depending upon how the book is typeset.ig novel-over 100,000 words (a significant investment by the publisher). Epic Novel - 150K+ (Think Lord of the Rings, Gone With The Wind, etc.). Manuscript page count is relatively unimportant, since it is word count that seems to drive the whole process.
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How Long Should My Story Be Publishers typically won’t consider a writer’s first novel if it’s too long. The maximum standard word count for an adult novel is about 110,000 words (some would say 130,000 words). Anything from 80,000 to 110,000 is common, with many novels falling in the 90,000 to 100,000 count range. The romance genre has word count standards of its own.
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How many words in an average novel? At bottom, though, the better rule of thumb is as many words as it takes to get your story told.. If that number is significantly lower than 80,000, be aware that some folks will put in a class other than the novel.
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Evaluating an expression with integers, +, and *, as well as -, / I would suggest using a smarter split expression, one that splits on the gaps between the operators and the values...: String[] parts = operand.split((?=[/*])|(?<=[/*])); With the above regex, you will get for example: 1/2*773 -> [1, /, 2, *, 773]
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How long is an average novel? the number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre a young adult novel will run between 20000 and 40000 words that would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing a mass market western mystery or sf novel used to run to 60000 70000 words
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- How many words per page is a good average for a novel. My book King of Princes has 320 pages and an average of 280 words per page on font size 16, Times New Roman. Therefore most of the pages are over 300 words to a page. Page breaks etc bring down the average.
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Whatâs the Correct Length for an Ebook? The average nonfiction book, if such a thing exists, runs about 50,000 to 75,000 words, but this can vary depending upon category. Biographies, for example, can run 200,000 words. How-tos or self-help usually have 40-50,000 words. The average adult novel runs approximately 100,000 words while those in other categories run 80-120,000 words. Every category will have an average length, including children’s books, young adult, business books, etc. You can use comparable, successful books as models to determine the length you book “should” be.
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Word Count Literary / Commercial / Women's: 80,000 to 110,000 - These genres vary greatly in how their stories are told, but not in how many words are used to tell them. There are few exceptions of published debut novels not falling between these strict markers.
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- For that group, a novel is more than 40K words, a Novella is 17.5K words, and a short story is under 7.5K words. I don’t mind a publisher, agent or even a writer giving us his opinion of what word count makes a book, but to try to pass it off as definitive is more than arrogant. Pfft.
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Chapter & Novel Lengths These are just two of the most common questions asked by writers. They assume they have to work to a strict template of X amount of words and X amount of chapters, usually because most novels have around 30 or 40 chapters and around 80,000 words.
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- How many words per page is a good average for a novel. My book King of Princes has 320 pages and an average of 280 words per page on font size 16, Times New Roman. Therefore most of the pages are over 300 words to a page.
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Writing Fiction My book is currently 45,675 words and I am starting on Chapter 30. Do you have an opinion on chapter length and word count?. It can depend on the kind of book you're writing. Some formula fiction, especially romance, is sometimes written to fit into a precise number of printed pages.
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Difference between ânovelâ and âfictionâ Like they will say that a novel is a story of 40,000 words or more, a novella is 20,000 to 40,000 words, and anything shorter is a short story. As far as I know there's no standard in the publishing business, though. These are just ballpark numbers.
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Wordcount Dracula PICTURE BOOK: 0-1,300 words. * Note: I really advise clients to keep their picture books under 600 words - 800 at the very top. Picture books in the 1,000+ word range are generally folktales and fairy tales... and are not exactly in fashion. Unless you are a really gifted folklorist, I would not go down this road.
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Average Book Length: Guess How Many Words Are In A Novel According to Amazon’s great Text Stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. The figure was found through looking at a number of books’ text stats, until Brave New World‘s 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all books–50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words.
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How Many Scenes Does Your Novel Need? I’ve written scenes that were less than 100 words. I’ve written scenes that ran longer than 3000 words. On average, my scenes run about 1000 words, which is four double-spaced pages. Since my novels typically run over 100,000 words, that means I end up with about 100 scenes. There aren’t any rules on the scene length, as long as the story works. You should write the scenes to the right length for your story.