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Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price of a translation job. Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing and reading speeds (usually in words per minute). When converting character counts to words, a measure of 5 or 6 characters to a word is generally used for English. [1]
To win NaNoWriMo, participants must write an average of 1,667 words per day (69 per hour, 1.2 per minute) in November to reach the goal of 50,000 words written toward a novel. Organizers of the event say that the aim is to get people to start writing, using the deadline as an incentive to get the story going and to put words to paper.
There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. [2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; [3] [4] at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages.
The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
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Awards are offered in these genres: drama/screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. These awards are classified under two categories, graduate or undergraduate, except the novel and drama/screenplay, which are combined categories. Award amounts for this contest vary, but usually fall in the range of $1000 to $6000.
The Southeast Review continues the contest but has increased the maximum to 500 words. [10] In 1996 Stern published Micro Fiction: an anthology of really short stories drawn, in part, from the contest. [11] It was not until 1992, however, that the term "flash fiction" came into use as a category/genre of fiction.
The judging panel is made up of five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". [2] The category for Poetry was established in 1950 and has been awarded annually apart from the period 1984 to 1990. [3] The Poetry award and many others were eliminated from the program when it was revamped in 1984.