Word Count of a Novel
A flash fiction is generally defined as a piece of prose
under a thousand words.
A short story is more than 500 and less than 10,000 to
20,000 words.
A novella has a count between 20,000 and 50,000 words.
A work of fiction containing more than 50,000 words falls
squarely into the realm of the novel.
Novel idealica is 80,000 to 100,000 words.
Over 120,000 words is epic.
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