How many pages would this be in a novel?

Question

In my (hopefully) to be novel, I am wodering how much a page of document in word is in a book. Is there any way I can figure this out?
(I deem a page to be about 2600 charecters)

Answer 1

It depends on the size of your page. You can format your page in Word by selecting Page Setup. When I write, I usually select the Book fold option under the Multiple pages setup under the Margins tab. Apply to your document and you can roughly see how many pages you would get.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, have you tried to use the spell check? Publisher usually don't worry about "pages". They calculate the length by words. You also have to decide what is your definition of "book" is, too.

According to Duotrope.com, a novelette runs from 7.5k-15k words, novella runs 15 -40K while a Novel are 40K+. Of course individual publishers will have their own standards.

The typeset, amount of dialog and page sent up varies so much that it is just easier to use the word count. Microsoft word has a "word count" option under tool, if you haven't found that before.
I just wrote the first draft of a book for nanowrimo.com. It came to 50,000 words or about 100 pages.

Good luck with your writing

Answer 3

If you mean 1 page in ms word, then it amounts to between 1.5 to 2 pages printed and bound. I use 10 pages single spaced to a chapter and plan on between 15 to 20 chapters. It should yield a book between 200 and 300 pages depending on how choppy the dialog gets.

Answer 4

Depends on your final page size (5x7?), your font size (10 or 12 point) and line spacing. A page is word is 8.5x11, so you have to realize your have less "real estate" to work on. Plus, empty space at the end of chapters, etc, take up even more pages.

Answer 5

About 50-60 thousand words should be in a small novel.
It should be around 200 pages.

Answer 6

Hm...Probably a little bit less than double the amount.