Book word count

[ryan123450]

Thats kind of what Star Wars does with most novels having exclusive Star Wars Insider tie-in short stories.

 

[tomswift2002]

So I was a little off. Blame the Government of Ontario for not teaching how to measure in American standard.

Or thank them for teaching you the system most of the rest of the world uses...

Actually, I find it's the most useless system out there, unless you are working in the sciences, otherwise in normal day life I can't really recall when I last used the metric system, since for cooking or even doing simple repairs/carpentry everything is measured in cups, pounds, inches, feet and yards.

 

[JD]

My shortest Star Trek novel was Wildfire, at 52,000 words;

Is that length just the first one, or is that both added together?

 

[Christopher]

^It's both, since they wouldn't have published a single e-book of that length. Looks to me like Part 1 is 22,000 and Part 2 is 30,000.

 

[Thrawn]

Longer books are not always a "win." As my former writing partner and editor John Ordover once said, "No well-written book is too long, and no poorly written book is ever short enough." In my opinion, a book should be as long as it needs to be to tell its tale well—and not a word longer than that.

I see where you're coming from, and your conciseness really keeps your novels moving, but there is every so often something wonderful about reading some random irrational sprawl of a novel. I adore Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, for example, and fully a third of that book has to be totally unnecessary. It's also totally awesome.

 

[Masiral]

Longer books are not always a "win." As my former writing partner and editor John Ordover once said, "No well-written book is too long, and no poorly written book is ever short enough." In my opinion, a book should be as long as it needs to be to tell its tale well—and not a word longer than that.

I see where you're coming from, and your conciseness really keeps your novels moving, but there is every so often something wonderful about reading some random irrational sprawl of a novel. I adore Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, for example, and fully a third of that book has to be totally unnecessary. It's also totally awesome.

On the other hand, A Song of Ice and Fire gets almost agonizingly long sometimes.

 

[ronny]

Longer books are not always a "win." As my former writing partner and editor John Ordover once said, "No well-written book is too long, and no poorly written book is ever short enough." In my opinion, a book should be as long as it needs to be to tell its tale well—and not a word longer than that.

I see where you're coming from, and your conciseness really keeps your novels moving, but there is every so often something wonderful about reading some random irrational sprawl of a novel. I adore Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, for example, and fully a third of that book has to be totally unnecessary. It's also totally awesome.

I totally agree on Crptonomicon. I remember being half way through and thinking I could have read 2 other books in the time I've gotten this far and I still had no idea where the story was going. And I didn't care. I was having so much fun I didn't want it to end.