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Date Posted: 11:16:07 07/28/02 Sun
Author: Robert
Subject: Re: The Bookmarks Reorganisation Thread
In reply to: DeepaD 's message, "The Bookmarks Reorganisation Thread" on 10:09:44 07/28/02 Sun

Sounds like a good idea.

There are some series of vignettes, so I wouldn't put
series in their own category. What matters is the overall
length.

For comparison, paperbacks have roughly 250 words per page.
A slim 200 page novel will be about 50K words, while the
largest single volume works are about 1200 pages, 300K.

6000 words is 24 pages, barely a chapter.

I'd say split them
Vignettes - Under 1000 words.
Short stories - 1K to 20K words.
Novellas - 20K to 50K
Novels - 50K and up

However the best thing to do might be to see how many
stories are each length, then split at the round numbers
that make each category closest to a quarter.

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[> Re: The Bookmarks Reorganisation Thread -- Cas, 00:26:38 07/29/02 Mon

>I was thinking, Vignette - below 1,000 words, Story -
>between 1,001-6,000, Novel - 6,000 - 11,000, and
>beyond that, series...

Like the others I think this is a good idea. Sometimes you're in the mood to read something a bit longer or a bit shorter and depending on where something is archived it's not always easy to see at the start how long a fic is going to be, so this would be very useful. I would go with either of the breakdowns Barb gave and having a distinction between a novellette and a novella is useful - there's a big difference between 7k and 50k words after all. Ultimately I don't think it matters though what each of them is or how many categories we end up with as long as there is a definition for each category.

Cas


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