A Writer’s Guide to Book Lengths

When I first began writing in 2015, I thought there were three different classified book lengths: short story, novella, and novel. Turns out those aren’t the only categories your book can fall into. Depending upon your story’s length, there are six different word count divisions. Before we dive in, do keep in mind that the listed word counts are general: I’ve seen different answers from different sites, where the answers vary from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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