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Imagine I write a work of fiction, which is larger than 10.000 words (short story), but smaller than 80.000 words (novel). The external genre is thriller, the internal one -- disillusionment plot. ...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:15:24Z (over 4 years ago)
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Franz Drollig
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2019-12-08T10:15:24Z (over 4 years ago)
Imagine I write a work of fiction, which is larger than 10.000 words (short story), but smaller than 80.000 words (novel). The external genre is thriller, the internal one -- disillusionment plot. **What do I call such work so that readers have the right expectations regarding its size?** Possible answers: - [Novella](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella): Works between 17,500 and 40,000 words - [Novelette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella#Versus_novelette): Between 7,500 and 17,500 words - [This article](https://owlcation.com/humanities/Difference-Between-A-Short-Story-Novelette-Novella-And-A-Novel) claims that everything larger than 40,000 words is a novel (personally, I'm not sure about that)
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System
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2018-11-28T11:50:21Z (over 5 years ago)
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