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Is 60000 words too short for a novel?

Is 60000 words too short for a novel?

For most publishers, a book is “novel-length” when it’s between 50,000 and 110,000 words. At a writers conference I recently attended, publishing veteran Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn’t novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much.

What is the shortest novel ever written?

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Is 100 pages too short for a book?

When talking about book length, it’s common to talk about word count rather than page count. A typical manuscript page (8.5×11 paper, 1-inch margins, standard 11- or 12-point font, doublespaced—like you would type in Word) is considered to be 250 words. So a 25,000-word manuscript is about 100 pages.

What is the shortest story ever written?

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” is the entirety of what has been described as a six-word story, making it an extreme example of what is called flash fiction or sudden fiction. Although it is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, the link to him is unsubstantiated and similar stories predate him.

What is the world’s shortest horror story?

The World’s shortest horror story by Fredric Brown. “Knock” ” The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

What book has most words?

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust. No doubt Frank, the number one Proust scholar in America from Little Miss Sunshine would have read this even though it’s 1.5 million words long. The English translation is Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time.

What is the thickest book in the world?

Agatha Christie book is the world’s thickest. A book with a collection of all of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the thickest book published. More than a foot thick, the 4,032-pages book weighs 8.04kg, and has 12 novels and 20 short stories.

What book took the longest to write?

5 Books That Took The Longest To WriteGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (10 Years) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (10 Years) No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (13 Years) The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (12-17 Years) Sphere by Michael Crichton (20 Years)

What is the longest word in English?

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What is the shortest word?

The shortest words in the English language are “a” and “I”. They are two vowels. They are also the only single-letter words in English. Even though it’s less common, some also consider “O” another single-letter word.

What word takes 3 hours to say?

ISOLEUCINE. Note the ellipses. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.