Are there industry guidelines for the length of a work of fiction?
2006-11-12 01:06:44 · 3 answers · asked by TatersPop 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A short story can be surprisingly long. 4000-6000 words is quite usual.
No-one seems able to give a precise definition of the length of novellas and novels. There aren't really industry standards. But you'd be looking at around 50 000 words for a brief novel.
2006-11-12 15:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as short stories are concerned. One page, one paragraph
50 pages at 300 words per page.
Novels and novellas are a different story. When Edgar Rice
Burrows wrote tarsan it was considered a novel. by todays
standards it would be called a novella.
Do a search for publishers. You might get a more diffinative answer from them.
2006-11-12 05:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say 1,500-2,000 words, and 650 for an essay
2006-11-12 01:14:21 · answer #3 · answered by been there, done that 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋