Questions about the length of books.
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Why Use Excessively Short Chapters?
Some of my favorite Frank Herbert books go 70 pages between chapters. All the James Patterson books go 2-3 pages between chapters.
I know non=fiction uses chapters to help navigate, which means ...
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Are TOC and appendix part of total word count for books?
Do table of contents, appendix, and chapter titles count toward the total word count for a book?
For example, if a book is 50,000 words, what is not included in the count? This is for a nonfiction ...
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Converting Word pages to book pages, for novels?
The title says it all. How can I gauge how long my novel would be, if for example I've written 400 single-spaced pages of size 12 Times New Romans in Microsoft Word?
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Adding Detail/“Filling” the story
I've got a lot of story fragments that contain the major plot, but that are also very short because everything moves so fast.
What I find a lot in Novels is a bit of "filler", like someone just ...
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Starting Out - Plot + Charaters by Documentaries [closed]
I gues I could say I am decently good at writing, for someone who doesn't write much besides English 101/102 classes.
I have a couple questions, which may proceed some background information to why ...
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What to do with my odd-length work?
I've just about finished up the first draft of a piece of work I've put a good deal of love into. It's genre fiction (paranormal/supernatural horror/urban fantasy/whatever they're calling it this ...
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How long should it take to write 100k words?
100,000 words makes a novel. For a perfectionist each line is poetry. How long should it take to write a novel? Not a bestseller. Just enough income to survive in the city.
Question subjective? ...
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How to go about breaking up a looooong YA story?
A while ago, I played around with a short story idea in a genre I don't normally write (Young Adult fiction). The story took on a life of its own, growing quickly to a novella, and now is definitely ...
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Is there a rule of thumb about the number of pages a work of fiction should have?
To be considered a "real" book, is there a rule of thumb about the number of pages one should have? If it has too few then people call it a short story (e.g., Fahrenheit 451) and if it has too many ...
