Tag: novel vs novella
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Writing: About Lengths and Words

I’m a concise writer. I know that. I’ve learned to slow down my writing over the years because at times it can be at breakneck speeds, and there are rumors about that some readers like to stew in the words of a story and not have to gulp them all down from the end of…
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I just hit 50,000 words for the fifth time. That deserves a post.
For me, a writer who likes to be concise, hitting 50,000 words is always a feat, but I’m noticing that it’s not nearly as big a deal as it used to be. Fifty-thousand is, of course, the usual plateau where a work officially is granted the title of novel – though I’m not sure who…
