I keep needing to look this up, so I'm putting it right here where I can always find it.
- Flash: under 500 (sometimes under 1,000)
- Short: Normally considered 5,000 to 10,000, but can be anything over 1,000
- Novelette: 7,500 to 17,500
- Novella: 17,500 to 40,000
- Novel: 40,000 to 110,000 at the extreme ends, with 50,000 to 100,000 being more the norm
- This entry is part 18 of 33 in the series General Writing Related.
Series TOC
- Series: General Writing Related
- Part 1: The New Weird
- Part 2: Creative/Critical—pick one
- Part 3: Back to Basics
- Part 4: No Art without Craft
- Part 5: Internal Dialogue
- Part 6: Conflict
- Part 7: Emotion
- Part 8: Story Unites
- Part 9: Noir
- Part 10: Noir #2
- Part 11: Neo-Noir
- Part 12: Noir #3
- Part 13: Noir #4
- Part 14: Chapter and Scene
- Part 15: Dialogue = Action
- Part 16: Webbage
- Part 17: Who or what is driving this thing?
- Part 18: How Many Words?
- Part 19: Short Story Structure
- Part 20: Telling Tales
- Part 21: Transcendent Writing
- Part 22: Inner Life
- Part 23: Characters in King and Spielberg
- Part 24: What can be Learned from Buffy?
- Part 25: Looking closely at some Hardboiled Writing
- Part 26: Writing from the Unconscious
- Part 27: Alter Yourself
- Part 28: Writing From Life
- Part 29: Local. Script. Man.
- Part 30: Dunning Kruger
- Part 31: Looking into Leiber
- Part 32: Discovering Writing
- Part 33: Devices of Horror
- This entry is part 18 of 33 in the series General Writing Related.
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