![]() ![]() Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is 257,000 words long. What about novels? There are 50,000 word novels. So there are short stories of word count ranging anywhere between them. A short story is usually over 1000 words but also less than 20,000 words. In the same way, some types of novels will be longer than others. For example a novel will always be longer (80,000 words) than a magazine article (usually 1000 words). The type of the work matters because its word count is affected by it. Word count is nothing more than the length of a piece, whether it is a novel, a story, a blog post, a magazine article or a sales letter. You’ve got to fix it up, and fast.īut first things first: what is a word count? But if you don’t have a suitable word count, hurry. Some people might not know the technical term. Knowing and caring about something is different, of course. The fact that most readers don’t know about your word count doesn’t say that they don’t care. It is an aside, yes, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important. How can it matter? Most people don’t even know what it is, and those that do, think it’s just an “aside”. Today’s writing tip is about the importance of word count.
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