A 50,000 word count is about 100 pages singlespaced or 200 pages doublespaced. Convert a number to usd currency and check writing amounts rounded to 2 decimal places. I wrote something for fun that is a little over 27,000. At a writers conference i recently attended, publishing veteran jane friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isnt novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much.
That might seem a rather pointless challenge but you can read just such a book gadsby by ernest vincent wright, a selfpublished story from 1939. Put simply, the sweet spot for a novels word count is generally said to be around 8090k. Calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. My first book contract in 1987 had a required length of 60,000 to 70,000 words. Its the perfect reference to reach for when i need to come up with words targeting certain sounds in specific positions of words as well as number of syllables needed. Equals is the story of the young russ who meets stephen at work. Jk rowlings harry potter and the philosophers stone is 76,944 words and that book is only about 200 or so pages. Currently, im on page 194 on the word processor, but how many pages would that translate into in a book. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. One truck full of paper paper produced from 50,000 trees 250 billion pages of text 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes pst file extension personal storage table. On the upper end, a novel over 110,000 words is considered an epic. How to write 50,000 words in a month books the guardian. As for nonfiction books, the standard bestsellers have word counts similar to adult novels.
Mar 17, 2020 each persons book project will be a unique undertaking, and their story will be as long as it needs to be. Gave it a try, and a carpel tunnel diagnosis later, i succeeded. But for the most part, a new generations of writers just grew up thinking that books should be around 100,000 words to have value. I worked one year without this book and had to find one to have in my office again. A single novel can be longer, but once the length is above 110,000 words publishers may look at cutting it back, unless it is a particular kind of book books over the 110k word count are usually considered epics. Therefore, a 55,000 word book should be about 200 manuscript pages. I recommend 50,000 to 70,000 words as the best range. The truth is the number of words per page depends on a variety of factors such as the type of font, the font size, spacing elements, margin spacing, and paragraph length to name a few. Roughly how many pages would 50,000 words produce in a.
The national novel writing month event challenges people to crank out 50,000 words in 30 days. Your book will now be converted from word to epub and saved in your calibre library. Generally a 50,000 word novel would be the minimum word count. That said, this figure differs from book to book and organization to. These page counts may vary depending on how youve formatted your writing, but with a typical setup using default page margins and times new roman or arial 12 point fonts the result should be comparable. Then you can fill in a winners certificate, with the title and your name then print it out. Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. However, it will be on the short side, as the average length of a novel hovers around 50,00070,000 words. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. Sep 20, 2009 no matter how much you adjust the other variables, if the ms is only 50,000 words in length instead of 95,000, then you have a problem if the book was announced as being 288 pages in length but the most it can be stretched to is 160 pages. A 50,000 word count will create about 100 pages singlespaced or 200 pages doublespaced with normal margins 1. Publishers also use a smaller font size as the page count for a popular book.
Generally, 50,000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70,000 words. That said, if your book is around 40,000 words, youre in good company. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. See also list of published authors who write quickly for published authors who consistently write at the nanowrimo pace or faster. The typical books wordsperpage count tends to range between 225 and 275an average of 250. This book is the number one resource of my speech pathologist. In fact, some freelance writers dont know they should be charging per word in the first place. Giving a topic short shrift in an attempt to wrap up the book in a certain number of words will not accomplish the ultimate goal of producing a book that has value and merit in the eyes of the reader. You can use this tool when you write and also when you order from an academic writing website. As you can see, a smaller trim size will produce more pages for the same word count, and a larger trim size will produce less. It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, 250300 words per page. Data volume estimates and conversions sds discovery.
When i did my research while writing my memoir, i found the range of 80,000100,000 words to be suitable. Just write and wrap it up when you feel it should be ended. You 50,000 word manuscript may be half the page length of another authors 50,000 word manuscript. Nov 05, 2012 people take a personal challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Your debut novel is 20,000 words long how not to self. Book format the same exact book in hardback and paperback rarely have the same number of pages. Sep 18, 2015 50,000 words is 100 pages single spaced, 200 pages double spaced. You could go as low as 45,000 and as high as 80,000, but i wouldnt suggest going too far outside of this range except for special cases i.
I magine writing a 50,000 word novel without using the letter e. I magine writing a 50,000word novel without using the letter e. Convert a number to a us english word representation. This became evident when i first started hiring freelance bloggers to work with me.
So i just started this book and apparently most teenyoung adult fiction novels are about 50,000 words, and the first chapter so far is about 2,100 before editing and adding and such. Using the size of a usual book you would be looking at around 200 300 pages. A year after first books failure, mike finished manuscript for the new novel. If this short description sounds boring to you, probably equals will not be your book. Gadsbys text is a lipogram a form of writing where a letter, or even a number of letters if you are so inclined, are omitted. Nov 07, 2017 how much should freelance writers charge per word. Shorter novels such as fahrenheit 451, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the great gatsby, and slaughterhousefive are between 4050,000 words. To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. The average fiction book is about 80,000 to 100,000 words, which is about 246 to 307 ebook pages. By the time i wrote my last traditional book, the contract wanted a book of over 90,000 words. This converter will convert numbers to words and figures to words. Blynchbooks asked me for tips, and what started out as a quick message turned into a tl. However, some decide to ramp that up and try to write it in 24 hours.
Nov 30, 2012 doing 50,000 words in 30 days a nanowrimo participant chronicles the pluses and minuses in 750 words. Most massmarket paperbacks are a good 80,000 words. How to convert a word document to epub or mobi for kindle. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. When you query a publisher, its customary to include your novels estimated word count. Oct 22, 2017 claim your win for 50,000 words anytime after the 20 th of november. You can easily calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. Pencilthin books on narrow topics that are under 50,000 words are quite common.
Mar 10, 2014 so i just started this book and apparently most teenyoung adult fiction novels are about 50,000 words, and the first chapter so far is about 2,100 before editing and adding and such. No matter how much you adjust the other variables, if the ms is only 50,000 words in length instead of 95,000, then you have a problem if the book was announced as being 288 pages in length but the most it can be stretched to is 160 pages. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel. A novel is considered 40,00050,000 words, so you could stop there. Thats the level where publishers may suggest dividing a story into multiple volumes. Meanwhile picking the book next to it on the shelf, clash of the sky galleons has roughly 250 words a page, which would bring your total up to around 160 pages. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. Aug 05, 2019 for most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. It organizes almost every common word in the english language by vowel and consonant placement, and is used to help any student of speech pathology, e. However, many authors, frustrated with the low price of ebooks, have taken to writing ebooks that are between 40,000 and 50,000. Assuming you use the standard conventions for manuscript format 1 margins, 25 doublespaced lines per page, and a 12 point nonproportional font like courier, then a good rule of thumb is one page equals 250 words for the mathimpaired, that means you multiply the number of. Now, if youre using an unconventional formatting or margins you could see different results, however, with standard word processor defaults and a 12 point arial or times new roman font your output should be very similar.
Lewis the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, roald dahls charlie and the chocolate factory. Repeat the convert books process if you wish to convert your book again from word to mobi for amazon kindle. By most peoples standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel. This time, when mike reached johns place, he came to know that john had died tragically in a car crash while returning from a party drunk. Not only is stephen the cfo of the company but also 20 years older and besides their attraction both men are not sure if a relatonship could work. We explain two easy methods to estimate your book s page count. Ten million words at 400 words per minute equals 25,000 minutes. Nov 28, 20 nanowrimo even the acronym suggests writing in a hurry, and no wonder. Here are the digital tools to help you make a go of it. The overview below provides an indication of the number of pages required based on font.
While its not possible to take into all these factors when estimating how many words per page there will be for your writing. For single spaced pages, 62 and a half pages would be about 50,000 words. A good example is the wonderful little personalspiritual guide, the four agreements, by don miguel ruiz, which averages about 10 words per line x 20 lines per page 200 words per page. Posted on november 10, 2014 by chassycheri trying to find a way to complete my novel, i looked at all sorts of tips on the internet and in ebooks. Before our book page count calculator, you had to dig around through multiple sources to figure out how many words per page for your exact font size and then do the math. Whether you want to create a booklet for an event or print out an ambitious book project, consider using the prebuilt page settings for booklets that comes with word. The great gatsby slaughter house five fight club less than zero to name a few.
Discussion in software started by gatogato, jun 2, 2008. Hey guys, i was wondering how many more double spaced pages of text in microsoft word i will have to write until it is enough for the average 200 page novel. However, there is a wide range of acceptable word counts for nonfiction books. Assuming you use the standard conventions for manuscript format 1 margins, 25 doublespaced lines per page, and a 12 point nonproportional font like courier, then a good rule of thumb is one page equals 250 words. A fairsized genre book scifi, fantasty can be expected to run 100,000 words, easy. A double spaced page has about 400 words, so 50,000 words would be about 125 pages. I just want to know how many words its the average chapter for a 50,000 word book. This book is a staple to my practice as a speechlanguage pathologist slp. Jul 10, 2014 equals is the story of the young russ who meets stephen at work. Publishers forced writers to write longer books, not to make the books better, but to justify their need to raise book prices because of other costs. Jun 27, 2019 a story that is over 40,000 words is generally considered a novel. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke.
Even the complexity of the words you use affects how many words are on a page. Your mileage may vary of course depending on what font you use, whether you use multiple spaces after a period, and your paragraph spacing settings. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. Now granted, some genre novels remained shorter, in the 80,000 word length, and category westerns and romance novels remained in the 50,000 word length. Novella, 20,001 50,000 words novel, 50,000 150,000 words for firsttime novelist, best to be 60,000 90,0000.
Book dimensions an oversized paperback or softcover can get more words on a page, given the same font size, than a pocket book or standard paperbackfont size. As a publisher who has laid out dozens of books for printinga 50,000 word manuscript should end up somewhere between 180 and 220 pages. The book fold layout sets you up for printing your masterpiece automatically in the correct order, ready for folding and binding. Doing 50,000 words in 30 days a nanowrimo participant chronicles the pluses and minuses in 750 words. The page count and the word count, should you choose to include it in the blurb, can be swayed by one chief factor what you include in that word count. Jan 08, 2018 wondering how many word pages equal a book page.
A story of over 50,000 words without using the letter e by wright free ebook project gutenberg. Here is a partial list of wellknown novels that contain roughly 50,000 words, which in turn is roughly 175 pages, and are thus comparable to the average size of a nanowrimo winners novel. The length can vary greatly between genres, though. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. But i was looking at steven kings the mist, which is over 50,000 words, but considered to be a novella. Convert documents word to pdf exactly as the original pdf file. Well explain two easy methods to calculate book page count. If youre single spacing your work, 6000 words is close to 12 pages. These might be interesting numbers to keep in mind, but they ultimately dont matter too much. Word count to page count free calculator for students and writers this is a tool to estimate how many pages long your paper will be, depending on word count and font name. My 2008 edition of writers market lists 15,00045,000 words as a novella and 45,000120,000 words as a novel. If you have a lot of dialog, you may have pages with a lot less than 250 words on them.
The typical books words perpage count tends to range between 225 and 275an average of 250. You will then have both epub and mobi files in your calibre library. Choose to have words for the numbers in lowercase, uppercase or title case to easily copy and paste to another application. Or should i just do what feels right and makes sense for the story. Im already at a little over 65,000 so i was wondering how many pages i could expect to have. If youre a wordy writer, you may have pages with a lot more than that. Manuscript page count is relatively unimportant, since it is word count that. Here is a partial list of wellknown novels that contain roughly 50,000 words, which in turn is roughly 175 pages, and are thus comparable to the average size of a nanowrimo winners novel see also list of published authors who write quickly for published authors who consistently write at the nanowrimo pace or faster the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams 46,333 words. This translates into just 20,000 to 25,000 words for a 100 page book, 30,000 to 42,500 words for a 150page book, perhaps just 40,000 words for a 200page book. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Also whats your opinion on having more than one scene in a. Nanowrimo even the acronym suggests writing in a hurry, and no wonder.