The long and the short of it.

I’ve been working on finishing off a story I started last year.

It had a first draft that was in need of a re-write. Then it developed into a multi-part affair, and insisted on extending itself out into a quite lengthy lexicon!

It’s currently sitting around 10,000 words. Now do remember this is first/second draft word count so can and will be subject to all manner of slash and burn and possibly a few oops, control z moments.

But, at the moment, I was struck by how 10,000 words is too big for a short story. So perhaps it was heading towards novella?

But here’s something new I learned today…

There is a thing called a novelette! As wikipedia says;

A narrative work of prose fiction shorter than a novella and longer than a short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelette

 

How fabulous it is to write a novelette without even knowing I was doing so!

I think there should be more novelettes in the world. Perhaps I will kick off a new trend!

Just as soon as I get done with the second, third, forth drafts!