Questions about the length of books.
Questions about the length of books. What is an appropriate length. How to make something longer or shorter.
Questions tagged [book-length]
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How long should it take to write 100k words?
100,000 words makes a novel. For a perfectionist each line is poetry. How long should it take to write a novel? Not a bestseller. Just enough income to survive in the city.
Question subjective? Maybe. Answerable? Yes.
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Converting Word pages to book pages, for novels?
The title says it all. How can I gauge how long my novel would be, if for example I've written 400 single-spaced pages of size 12 Times New Romans in Microsoft Word?
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What do I do with the length of my book and how to split it in two if needed
I have almost completed a high fantasy novel that I have spent over 10 years designing the world and everything that works in the story. It is the first of a trilogy and therefore has a main story line, a overarching series story line in it, and…
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Where might I find a "lines to pages" converter?
I'm looking for a specifically lines to pages converter. A Google search didn't really help. What's a formula or resource I could use?
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Microsoft Book Pages
I use Microsoft Word to write stories then I send it to a publisher. But, I want to know how many pages would the book version would be because I want to make long stories and/or books.
Reshad Sharif
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