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How long is/was your longest story?



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Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:58 am
khfan890 says...



Mine (and the only finished novel I have) was 98k, and in the process of editing, will get a little bit longer, but I don't think much longer.
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Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:28 am
Fishr says...



Word count is about 230,000. I say about because I no longer keep an eye on it. Including though the writing on the graphics (newsprint), my WC is probably fetching 230,000 plus words to be exact.

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Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:58 am
~Volant~ says...



A novel is anything past 100 pages, so maybe, um, 70,000? more or less. i dunno. I suck at math. haha

My longest story was about 30,000 words. I haven't finished it....lol
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Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:55 pm
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369 pages; I haven't a clue what the word count could be.
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Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:42 pm
onceuponatim3xo says...



I feel like my stories are so short!

Word count is about 230,000. I say about because I no longer keep an eye on it. Including though the writing on the graphics (newsprint), my WC is probably fetching 230,000 plus words to be exact.


Geez!

It took me over a year to finish mine. Does it help any that I was only 12/13 years old though? I've improved quite a bit since then, all thanks to YWS. :D
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Mon May 05, 2008 4:34 am
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Tue May 06, 2008 2:36 am
MidnightVampire says...



^ I feel for you. I wrote my best short story ever, and then I lost it. Along with all my other writing in that journal. Not as bad, but it still sucks.
The longest I've ever written (though, technically, this was with my friend, ) is going around 230-245 pages right now. I'm not putting up word count because I'm afraid that my freind will look at character count. The longest I've ever written by myself it about 90 pages of pure, untyped, unedited, suckiness (I ditched it when it was almost done. Maybe I'll go back to it sometime.)

An aknoledged novel is 50,000 words. I congradulate anyone who gets there or-even better-past it.
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Tue May 06, 2008 2:42 am
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About 24,000. Not exactly sure but it's somewhere around there and still going...
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:40 am
Kisonakl says...



My longest one so far, that I wrote 2 yrs ago, was 61,000 words long, but it was terrible. I mean god-awful high-fantasy stuff with misplaced teen angst and comedy.

My serious attempt, right now, stands at 46,000 words, but I'm aiming for 85-90,000 by the time I'm done with the first draft. I -think- it's better :).
  





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Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:34 pm
gamechanger10 says...



I'm not sure how many words it was, because my longest story was all handwritten. It was 329 pages, though, and I wrote it in 4th grade. It was terrible and I just dropped it in mid-sentence.
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:55 pm
Meep says...



My longest story was 50,000-something. Just long enough to beat NaNoWriMo and then some. :oops: I'm lazy like that.
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:13 am
bc3553 says...



my longest was about 95,000, but my computer crashed. :roll: it wasn't that good anyway.
i'm at about 15,000 in the story i'm working on now.
  





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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:24 am
alwaysawriter says...



My longest story was over a hundred notebook pages. No idea how many words; I was ten. :)
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:59 am
Gladius says...



My current I-absolutely-adore-and-spend-like-all-my-free-time-on-even-neglecting-my-current-YWS-story is about 55 k words. I'm so proud. :D :D :D *huggles story*

Alainna wrote:It took me over a year to finish mine. Does it help any that I was only 12/13 years old though?

*snort* The only things I've ever "finished" (even at that age) were school projects. I think the longest of those was, like, 8 or 9 handwritten double spaced pages for my 5th grade English teacher. >.<
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Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:52 am
Jay says...



25,330 words for my longest story (44 pages). It's definitely not a short story, but if it's a novel then it's a very short one.
  








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