When a Short Story is no Longer Short.
According
to Wikipedia. Determining what exactly
separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic
definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one
sitting,
Other
definitions place the maximum word count of the short story at anywhere from
1,000 to 4,000. In contemporary usage, the term short story most often refers
to a work of fiction no shorter than 1,000 and no longer than 20,000 words (5
to 20 pages). Stories of fewer than 1,000 words are sometimes referred to as
"short short stories" or "flash fiction." As a point of
reference for the genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America define the short story length in the Nebula Awards for science fiction
submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7,500. Longer
stories that cannot be called novels are sometimes considered
"novellas" or novelettes and, like short stories, may be collected
into the more marketable form of "collections", often containing
previously unpublished stories. Sometimes, authors who do not have the time or
money to write a novella or novel decide to write short stories instead,
working out a deal with a popular website or magazine to publish them for profit.
Average size of a short story is between
According to
Brian A. Klems, online managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine There are
general guidelines for each literary category: Short stories range anywhere
from 1,500 to 30,000 words; Novellas run from 30,000 to 50,000; Novels range
from 55,000 to 300,000 words books the length of War & Peace aren’t exactly
the easiest to sell-his words not mine.) But, anyway you look at it, the size
of any manuscript should be as long as needful to convey. SD
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