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DrThomas wrote:Hey @CupcakesForRealMen! This is one of those interesting questions that you really want a proper answer to and you get answers like "how long is a piece of string", and Google doesn't always help either.
I've always heard that a short story is 10,000 words or less, a novel is 50,000 words or more and anything in between is a novella. But of course, that isn't always true! Roald Dahl wrote a short story, (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) that's nearly 70 pages long - I'm not sure how many words, but certainly more than 10,000. But because he said it was a short story, and because he's Roald Dahl, we all just roll with it.
Novellas are funny creatures as well, to be honest, personally I'm never 100% sure where they stand. Sometimes they can be published alone but more often than not they can't. They can also fit into anthologies the way short stories do. So really a novella functions as either a really long short story, or a really short novel!
Rosendorn wrote:Here you go! A list of recommended word counts by genre/age group.
In the future, you can find out answers to this by goggling terms like "recommended word counts", which is how I found that list ^^
Holysocks wrote:Also there's Flash Fiction which is one of my favourites- because it's fun to write. XP Flash Fiction is basically a really short, short story, and it's generally more of a scene than a story. Or at least that's what I've come to know it as. They're generally around 500 words and around there.
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