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Since I write in different genres, I have to be mindful of the word-count. It’s best to have an idea of this before submitting anywhere. Your writing might be brilliant, but a potential publisher will be more apt to reject your manuscript if requirements aren’t met. There are many guidelines out there, but I prefer to adhere to the following criteria:
- Micro Fiction: This is the shortest form, between 50 to 100 words.
- Flash Fiction: A little longer, varies between 100 to 1000 words.
- Short Story: Anywhere between 1000 to 7500 words.
- Novelette: The word count can be between 7500 to 20,000 words.
- Novella: The story length can be between 20,000 to 50,000 words.
- Novel: This form can vary between 50,000 to 110,000 words.
Anything higher than a 110,000 word count falls into the Epic and Sequels category.
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by Edgar Allan Poe
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by S.M. Welles
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by Shirley Jackson
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by Kate Chopin
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by Eudora Welty
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by Alice Munro
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by Alice Munro
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by D.C. Akers
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by Cathryn Grant
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by SunHi Mistwalker
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by John Steinbeck
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by Ernest Hemingway
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by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Willa Carter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Nath
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by Garden Summerland
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by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold
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by Alice Munro
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by Alice Munro
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by Gabriel García Márquez
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by Alice Munro
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by Joyce Carol Oates
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by Peter S. Beagle
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by Edo Van Belkom, Robert Charles Wilson, Jason Christie, Matthew Johnson, Matthew Hughes, Victoria Fisher, Nancy Bennett, Lisa Smedman, Susan Forest, Yvonne Pronovost, Rene Beaulieu, Mark Dachuk, Michèle Laframboise, Rhea Rose, Sheryl Curtis, Scott Mackay, Sandra Kasturi, S
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by Iain Pattison
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by Murielle Cyr
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by Dave Eggers
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by Alberto Manguel
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by Peter Ackroyd, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Pullman, H.G. Wells, Louis de Bernières, Joyce Carol Oates, William F. Nolan, E. Nesbit, M.R. James, Eudora Welty, Dennis Wheatley, Alec Guinness, Alexander Woollcott, Lord Dunsany, Fritz Leiber, H. Rider Hagga
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by D.K. Cassidy
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by Algernon Blackwood
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by Gay Ingram
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by Stefania Mattana
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by D.K. Cassidy
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by Stefania Mattana
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by Danielle DeVor
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by S.R. Mallery
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by Bobi Sextun
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by Joyce Carol Oates
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by Gay Ingram
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by Jhumpa Lahiri
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by Xunaira J.
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by Amy Hempel
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by Kirstin Pulioff
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by Rebecca Lee
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by Elizabeth Marx
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by Xunaira J.
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by Aimee Bender
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