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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.
But while the length of a novel is mainly dependent on its writer, [5] lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, [6] and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words.
The morning after a severe thunderstorm leaves the town of Bridgton, Maine without electrical power, an unnaturally thick mist gradually envelopes the area. Commercial artist David Drayton, along with his young son Billy and neighbor Brent Norton (whose prized vintage car has been smashed by a fallen tree), go to the local supermarket for groceries, leaving David's wife Stephanie behind at ...
[6] All the sentences must have an "accented internal rhyme through the use of syntactical parallelism." [7] The text must include as many words as possible. The postscript of the book says that each chapter uses at least 98% of the available words. [7] The text must avoid repeating words as much as possible. [7] The letter "Y" is unused. [7]
Standard manuscript format is a formatting style for manuscripts of short stories, novels, poems and other literary works submitted by authors to publishers.Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.
Structured in three acts of two chapters each, it is intended to be both a novella and a script for a play. It is only 30,000 words in length. Steinbeck wanted to write a novel that could be played from its lines, or a play that could be read like a novel. [12] [13]
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
The novel was released on February 14, 1970 (Valentine's Day), [1] along with segments of the story which appeared in The Ladies' Home Journal. [2] Love Story became the top-selling work of fiction for the duration of 1970 in the United States and was translated into more than 33 languages . [ 3 ]