A Note on Word Count · 11:54am Dec 13th, 2014
Holy crab-apples folks, I was doing some calculations the other day out of sheer curiosity as to just how many words go into a book. So I went to my bookshelf and pulled one of the junior novels I had read years ago and did a quick page count and then flipping to a random page did a rough word count (words per line x lines per page x pages of story in book).
The result?
An Apples Studded Diamond already contains about 3000 more words than that particular novel, with the next chapter set to add another 5-6000 to that total.
I originally set out to write a short story and have somehow constructed a piece that would occupy 275-300 pages of standard junior type print.
I'm shocked. Where did I go right?
I don't care actually.
I am though totally grateful to all of you who have read this odd piece of crackshippery.
Thank you very much.
Sir Barton (One Old Racehorse)
*looks up numbers* The Nebula Award requires that novels have only more than 40,000 words. That's given out by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
That's it? That's... it's that easy to write a novel, according to the Nebula Award givers?
I mean, the requirement for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is 50k, but I hadn't thought that y'know... that means that fifty thousand words is novel-length.
But, I'm glad I read your piece of crackshippery too.
I enjoy your crackshippery too