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Writing Sometimes Philosophical @writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com@writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com ·How many words does an average novel have?
From Google AI:
The average word count for a standard adult novel is generally between 70,000 and 100,000 words. While 40,000 words is considered the minimum threshold, most fiction publishers look for manuscripts in the 80k–100k range, with 90,000 words often cited as the “sweet spot” for debut authors. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Word Counts by Genre (Adult Fiction)
- Literary/Contemporary Fiction: 80,000–100,000 words.
- Fantasy & Sci-Fi: 90,000–120,000 words.
- Thriller & Mystery: 70,000–90,000 words.
- Romance: 50,000–100,000 words.
- Historical Fiction: 90,000–110,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Considerations
- YA Fiction: Generally lower, aiming for 50,000–70,000 words.
- Debut Authors: It is crucial for new authors to stick closer to these guidelines. Over 110,000–120,000 words can be considered too long, signaling a need for heavy editing to agents and publishers.
- Novellas: These typically fall between 17,500 and 40,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
These guidelines are based on industry standards, ensuring the story is well-developed but not excessively long.
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@neve
How did the last two months go in terms of my word count or publishing goals?I'm getting more mentally organized and thinking about what I want to get down on paper, but actual words have been slow.
I've gotten the routine of making nut milk every 3-4 days down, and I finally got the heat pump dryer my hubby wanted working. It has *TWO* lint filters. WHO KNEW?? And I need a tiny vacuum to get them clean.
#Writephant #Writersofmastodon #mentalhealth #wordcount #writingcommunity
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#writing For my current serial I'm doing its has portions laid out as a script and portions laid out as prose. Curious about how you all would handle the #wordcount ?
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I see so much negatively in the book world on social media, from readers, writers, editors, artists & more. It can feel demoralizing. As a writer, just write a story that feels right. If you have a publisher insisting on so many words, okay, but sticking with a certain word count can bloat a book. #books #writer #wordcount
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Writer to writer How's your book coming along? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #BookSky #WIP #AmDrafting #AmEditing #WordCount #IndieAuthor #SpecFic #KidLit
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Writer to writer How's your book coming along? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #BookSky #WIP #AmDrafting #AmEditing #WordCount #IndieAuthor #SpecFic #KidLit
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30.5k words. I learned more things about football. People keep trying to explain to the protagonist that he doesn't have to be responsible for everything, but he doesn't have a frame of reference to grasp that. Not that I know what that's like or anything...
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Trenches, back into the...
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Trenches, back into the...
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I barely slept last night. But I am over 20k words on the urban fantasy football story. #WordCount
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I have averaged around 1666 words every day since Dec 12 on the urban fantasy football story. Which I think means I need 52 more days to get to 100k, which is probably the length to aim for. If my math is right. #writing #WordCount
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I have lost all patience with "content creators". If you are going to promote a topic then stick to it. I don't need to know the back story of when you bought your first computer when I've been promised information about an app replacement. Headlines should be a summary of an article's content not just a way to get people to click.
If you write recipes, just give me the recipe. I don't need the 3 page description of you going shopping for the ingredients or the litany of tweaks made across generations as a recipe was handed down.
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Write Like An Auctioneer
There's a cadence to an auctioneer's sing-song voice, the way that (usually) he calls out the prices, tries to entice the bid to go higher (do I hear four forty? how about four fifty? Okay, now four sixy....) out of an audience that could be fairly receptive to the item being offered or not. I've seen it at the livestock auctions I used to attend. Som
https://kitauthor.com/write-like-an-auctioneer/
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I solved my word-count problem. I am pleased to announce that this article is having a baby…
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I solved my word-count problem. I am pleased to announce that this article is having a baby…
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I solved my word-count problem. I am pleased to announce that this article is having a baby…
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I solved my word-count problem. I am pleased to announce that this article is having a baby…
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Our word count defaulted to text only, excluding footnotes, so it’s time to get out the scissors and snip snip snip
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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My next work, 1st draft. 27.9k words so far.
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
As great minds can express much in a few words, so small minds have the contrary talent of talking a great deal without saying anything at all.
[Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits, au contraire, ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶142 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blather #chatter #communication #eloquence #information #loquaciousness #speechcontent #talk #talkativeness #talking #terseness #wordcount #words
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I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
Just over 24 hrs later...
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Being fundamentally incapable of writing to a word limit, I have just met my quota of allotted words and know that I must continue and then come back and delete.
At least I have become one with this writing practice. I like to think that it helps me hone my argument.
(This is a happier interpretation than "inadequate outlining on the front end")
#AmWriting #AcWri #WritingPractice #wordcount #DeletingIsWriting
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Ended up getting some good words in. I'm really vibing with this story, but I know i have so much to go back and #edit. Excited to see what I can do with it though.
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Ended up getting some good words in. I'm really vibing with this story, but I know i have so much to go back and #edit. Excited to see what I can do with it though.
#fantasty #shortstory #writinggoalds #wordcount -
Ended up getting some good words in. I'm really vibing with this story, but I know i have so much to go back and #edit. Excited to see what I can do with it though.
#fantasty #shortstory #writinggoalds #wordcount -
Ended up getting some good words in. I'm really vibing with this story, but I know i have so much to go back and #edit. Excited to see what I can do with it though.
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@annathepiper Reworking goals feels so much like changing the goalposts. It’s not. It’s so not. Assessment time and debriefing projects is not passing judgement on self — it’s just us glamorizing some of our goals over others (like word count). New Month! New Goals! Writing is being done! Every word is closer to the celebration!
#WritingMonth
#AmWriting
#writinggoals
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Nachdem ich grad aus Gründen an zwei (eigentlich drei) Projekten gleichzeitig schreibe, ist mein #writingmonth #wordcount etwas durcheinander. Gestern jedenfalls 956 Wörter an der Novella, heute 814 am Nonfiction-Anthologie-Beitrag. #Schreiben #Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #NaNoWriMo
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If my students can do it, I can do it!
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After years of posting here, I've learned to make both my sentences and paragraphs as short as I can ; ) Re-reading my old blog posts, I'm struck by the epic length of both.
Why on Earth did I make them so long? I suspect it was caused by a couple of years writing university assignments. Where there's a tension between including as much information as possible, and staying within the word limit. Maybe longer sentences reduce the need for joining words that count against that limit?
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Why are word counters in applications so wildly different and how do you actually find out what a projects true word count is, when the application you're working in is not sure?
E.g:, A document in Libre office, has a different word count in Google docs, has a different word count in novelwriter, has a different word count in charactercounter.com
Obviously knowing your projects word count is important, especially when making submissions
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Easily Count Characters And Words In Text Files Using Python #Python #Script #Wordcount #Charactercount #CLI
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I'm over half done with Draft 2.5, and I can tell my writing has improved, just during the course of this one draft.
If I extrapolate, my book will be over 160k words by the end of Draft 2.5. At 300 words per page, that's a 544 page book. I want to add even more description in later drafts, but I also know I'll need to cut about 25% of my wordcount to reach that magical 120k limit for a debut fantasy novel.
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If you need a word counter, and you are writing something in something that doesn't have a word counter (as I just was) this is a good word counter.
https://wordcount.com/
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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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Reader, had I the space to write at will,
I should, if only briefly, sing a praise
of that sweet draught. Would I were drinking still!
But I have filled all the pages planned
for this, my second, canticle, and Art
pulls at its iron bit with iron hand.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/68376/#quote #quotes #quotation #art #drink #fourthwall #structure #writing #wordcount #water #meta
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Meet Jikininki-the corpse eater. He makes a dramatic appearance in my current (working on) short story.
Between recording _The Book of Japanese Folklore_ , researching and writing podcasts, and reading my new tome that came in the mail, I was able to write 825 words.
#amwriting #wordcount #shortstory #horror #japan #japanhorror #jikininki
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4090 words out of the minimum of 6100 I need to do today.
Not a very productive day. I could have done more.This raises the average to 6500 words per day.
Still doable.
Side note: I need to stop pulling names out of my ass to give to side characters. I keep having to go back to learn again how I called someone who seemly didn't have any importance when they first appeared.
#NaNoWriMo #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SteamPunk #Cloudsea #WritersOfMastodom #WordCount
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4090 words out of the minimum of 6100 I need to do today.
Not a very productive day. I could have done more.This raises the average to 6500 words per day.
Still doable.
Side note: I need to stop pulling names out of my ass to give to side characters. I keep having to go back to learn again how I called someone who seemly didn't have any importance when they first appeared.
#NaNoWriMo #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SteamPunk #Cloudsea #WritersOfMastodom #WordCount
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4090 words out of the minimum of 6100 I need to do today.
Not a very productive day. I could have done more.This raises the average to 6500 words per day.
Still doable.
Side note: I need to stop pulling names out of my ass to give to side characters. I keep having to go back to learn again how I called someone who seemly didn't have any importance when they first appeared.
#NaNoWriMo #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SteamPunk #Cloudsea #WritersOfMastodom #WordCount
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4090 words out of the minimum of 6100 I need to do today.
Not a very productive day. I could have done more.This raises the average to 6500 words per day.
Still doable.
Side note: I need to stop pulling names out of my ass to give to side characters. I keep having to go back to learn again how I called someone who seemly didn't have any importance when they first appeared.
#NaNoWriMo #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SteamPunk #Cloudsea #WritersOfMastodom #WordCount