Some publishers also use different fonts. Even Fox Cutter's estimate is words per page isn't useful. If you have a lot of dialog, you may have pages with a lot less than words on them. If you're a wordy writer, you may have pages with a lot more than that. Even the complexity of the words you use affects how many words are on a page. You 50, word manuscript may be half the page length of another authors 50, word manuscript.
The short answer: Don't worry about page length. Worry about word length. That doesn't change no matter how the book is formatted. The software I use, Scrivener, offers "Project Statistics" which list words, characters, and estimates how many paperback pages and printed pages the manuscript will generate.
You can see that this is a little less than words per page in paperback. But don't forget that publishers employ different font sizes and leading depending on how long a book is in words. They'll pad out a short manuscript with large type and more leading, but lengthy manuscripts will correspondingly be compressed.
I presume what I have here is an average of some kind. Pages by paperback uses an industry standard formula for English language publishing of taking the average number of words per page and multiplying it by the average number of characters per word five including a space, for six total , the product of which is then used to divide against the total character count of the project. So far Scrivener has been a Mac-only application A Windows version is supposedly going to be available this year.
That's really hard to say, books are usually measured by word count and not page count. That being said you can usually assume about words per a printed page.
This means that a 75, word novel would be around pages. Even so, that's not a very good calculation. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. For example, a YA novel might use a larger font size to increase readability leaving only words on the page. On the other hand, a modern fantasy novel might have a much smaller font and tighter margins then you expect to cram words on a page.
At one point in time My roommate collected the Shadownrun tie in novels. All the books are about the same page count, but the layout varies depending on the length of the story. In fact one of the books has a tremendous amount of padding all over the page to expand a much shorter story to the correct page count. So, the long and short of it is that your layout and printed page count probably have very little to do with each other. I would recommend the word count trick from above to get a fairly close idea, but even that can be wildly inaccurate.
Another way to figure out the number of pages is to use something like CreateSpace , or perhaps Lulu. Here is CreateSpace's Word template page. A good agent will never charge a fee for her work on your behalf. You will get the rest. You can get an agent the same way you get a publisher: by finding a book on how to get them such as the one by Jeff Herman and sending them query letters.
Every writer feels this way. It works. Please help. The solution to this problem is very simple: Sit down.
Start a story. Finish it. Put it aside. Start another story. How about this: Who do you hate and why? Who do you love and why? How many pages should my novel be? Publishers go by words, not pages. Teen books are about 55, words. How many words are there to a page? It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, words per page. Therefore, a 55, word book should be about manuscript pages.
A , word book would be about Editors like 12 point font. What writing program should I use? On average, young adult novels usually fall around 55, and 70, words. For a first-time novelist, it might be a little hard to pitch your YA manuscript to editors if your word count exceeds that number.
Usually, only great epics get away with more than , words because of the brilliance of the material and content, like J. The most common rule for a memoir is that it should not go more than 80, words. A 40, to 80,word memoir is around pages, a standard book-length for the genre. If the memoir is full of personal anecdotes, they can probably get away with writing more than pages. However, it is much more recommended if the author just writes two separate memoirs, instead of a really long one.
If the subject of the memoir is a well-known individual, then it is okay to go more than the standard number of word count. Traditionally published novels can go from 80, words to even as high as , However, longer than that may be considered too long by publishers, so you may need to cut down some of your content a little.
You have to be careful about your word count when it comes to mystery novels, and hitting 80, is the longest you should probably go. This is because the more words you write, the more you might give away the mystery in your novel. When it comes to this genre, you have to keep your readers on your toes. This genre is generally accepted to be longer in length compared to other books. Fantasy novels, in particular, tend to run longer than , words.
Here are two theories why:. We hope that this post answered some of your questions on how long should your novel be.
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