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@keilah-h haha, yes, the art is hilarious 🤣 thx!! 💕
@smiley @keilah @euodia-visionI have to be honest…I’m not the biggest fan of Age of Ultron either 😅 I find Ultron really annoying; it has more parts that I don’t watch than any of the other Avengers movies, and the only things that saves it are Pietro (bc I like Wanda more in later movies…ngl, she’s a little creepy in AoU XXD and Vision is also better in later movies) and the funny dialogue/moments…but otherwise, not the biggest fan, my sincerest apologies
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@euodia-vision yeah, that was the only scene that did it.
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@freedomwriter76 it’s not my favorite favorite either, so I can understand.
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I think I may have asked this question before, but how long should my book be? I looked it up and one website said it must be over 70,000 and the rest mainly said has to be 40,000??? I am only at around 15,000 so far but don’t want to make it to long or to short😀 Thanks!
Write it the length that works for your book! I think the most important thing is having a complete plot in there, you can always add/take away sideplots or scenes during editing. I think from what I’ve read, generally science fiction tends to run long, romance shirt, and I’m not sure about dystopian but somewhere in there lol. Also, if you’re writing for young adult, that will make it different too. If you want a goal to aim for, I think about 60,000 would be good, but mainly it depends on your writing style and what you think you can handle.
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- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott*short
Congratulations on 15,000, by the way!! 🎉🎉
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- Little Women, Louisa May AlcottThanks!😊 💗And thanks for your answer, I think will shoot for around 60,000!
It depends mainly on genre. The standard range for adult fiction is 50,000–100,000, per Writer’s Digest, with the best range being 80,000–90,000 words. (For comparison, this would be a book that’s approximately 300 pages once published.) If you’re writing YA, 60,000 words might be fine—the range for that age bracket is 50,000–80,000. If you’re writing adult historical fiction, as I am, you’ll want to aim for 80,000–100,000. Adult speculative fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, and dystopian) is usually longer: 90,000–120,000, sometimes even more. Anything shorter than 50,000 words is usually considered a novella, and even 60,000 is cutting it really close for adult fiction. Middle-grade is shorter: 20,000–55,000.
As @hybridlore said, focus on having a complete plot and then edit either longer or shorter from there. It can also be good to keep some very practical issues in mind—anything longer than 100,000 words is going to be very expensive to self-publish and not likely to catch the eye of a traditional publisher, and anything shorter than 50,000 will “feel short” to readers if it isn’t marketed as a shorter book or novella. I’ll add the Writer’s Digest article link (very detailed and helpful) in a separate comment below this post so it doesn’t get eaten by KP.
Hope that helps! Congratulations on the progress!
Jayna Baas
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www.booksbyjayna.com@acancello https://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/word-count-for-novels-and-childrens-books-the-definitive-post
Jayna Baas
Christian Author/Editor
www.booksbyjayna.comI totally agree with what Jayna and Hybridlore told ya. I don’t think I have anything to add. 😁
And congratulations on making it 15,000 words through your book!! 😊
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How’s school going for y’all?
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- Little Women, Louisa May AlcottPretty good. I just got a really complicated and challenging ELA and I love it! The only thing I’m not doing so well on is math…😂 How is your school going? Are you homeschooled like me?
Thanks you! I just checked out the link, its pretty helpful! I am going to go for around 60,000 as that seems right for a YA dystopian. Thanks again!💗
Thank you! :)💗
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That’s good! Hah, it’s ok, I haven’t been doing great on math either, but I’m always a little rusty after summer vacation. Yep, I am! 😁 It’s been going pretty well!
Pretty good! How are you? xD Yeah I get that.
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