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With fun, lighthearted, simple middle grade youll want to stay around the 20k30k word count range. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. That said, this figure differs from book to book and organization to. Unfortunately, they dont offer word count so ive created an algorithm based on the number of pages, genre, and the dimensions of the book. Ive been writing a novel over the past year, and with the help on your site as well as a few other sites, ive been converting it into manuscript format. The word count that your computer gives you is not a standard word count like they use in publishing. To get an accurate word count for your manuscript, take the character count and divide by 5.

Line count varies depending on page size, font size, etc. Higher word counts cost more to produce and if publishers are already taking a chance on a new author, taking a chance on a high word count is one more element of risk they have to deal with. Count the words in a document computer docs editors help. Opt already knows how many words opt has in the ms. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. To find the word count while you type, check display word count while typing ok. Like a general fiction novel, a good target word count for a memoir is 80,000 words. Since opinions vary greatly, i did some research to verify the numbers in my head. I love to know the word counts of books and essays. Onethird of the novels that come into the agency are rejected because theyre too long or short, perkins says.

Im a retired ministry of defence police officer and was seconded to the united nation mission in kosovo on three occasions. Besides, this tool also includes many other features like readability, keyword density. That was the formula in the good old days when courier was the only typeface and typewriters were king. Perkins agency in new york says its much easier to market a firsttime novelists book if the word count falls between 80,000 and 100,000 words, or roughly 300 doublespaced, typed pagesthe average novel length. Although hang on, its not south africa were talking about its americas deep south in the 1960s, when people were just waking up to the fact that smoking was bad for you and folk in mississippi were getting all worked up about civil rights. I clicked on the unabridged version, and it lists the word count as 97,364. Word counts the number of words in a document while you type. A word count that is much higher than the average range tells the agent or editor your work probably needs to be tightened. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference.

Copy and paste your text into the online editor to count its words and characters. I dont need one of those equations to help calculate word count based on the number of pages times whatever. In contrast, word count is finite and usually i can calculate book length with about 99% accuracy in part because also included in any calculation is a count of figures, tables, etc. I think it mostly only has kids ie ya and younger books.

Learn the average wordcount for every type of novel, novella, genre, etc. For a partial word count, select the words you want to count. Write as much as it takes to tell the story, and no more. I was quickly flooded with emails from many an angry author for daring to put a word count on a level of book. Its an approximation because the manuscript you wrote is your best effort. At there is a nifty search tool outlining the interest level, book level, word count and number of pages in many childrens books, as well as various awards, booklists and groupings. When i began writing for kids a decade ago, i was told to keep it under 1200 words, ideally under. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words.

Hey, im writing a book and im a bit worried about the word count. Put simply, the sweet spot for a novels word count is generally said to be around 8090k. I put in anne of green gables and clicked on the first entry, and it listed the word count as 17,129. Pencilthin books on narrow topics that are under 50,000 words are quite common. The hobbit has more unique words and a higher unique word density than both the silmarillion and each volume in the lord of the rings. Itll give you the word count in the books summary when you click on its title. As you can see, with the exception of the use of had in book 3 these are very low counts for a 250,000 word piece, even had only rates a one in 100 mention in that book. Search for word count totals in books word counters.

There are no hardandfast rules when it comes to what word count a novel in a particular genre should be. A way to check word count of published books anita nolan. Searching for books with a corresponding renaissance accelerated reader 360 quiz is easy with accelerated reader bookfinder. How long should my book be word count goals and average book lengths duration. Author eve tells me her book came in at 95,000 words. Editors and publishers can better gauge the length of your book by the number of words, which is why this figure is emphasized in their. Finally, a chance to peek inside my domestic workers head and see what shes really thinking about me, her strange white madam. Calculate book page count using word count for book design.

Maybe its because i am datadriven or attracted to trivia, or just like to have a concrete number to say, this is what i did today, but i think the main reason is. Stephen king word count 112263 274,672 bag of bones 203,3 black house 252,270 blockade billy 15,917 carrie 60,718 cell 121,931 christine 193,602 cujo 121,150 cycle of the werewolf 15,955 desperation. Where can i find a database of all published books word. Still, instead of word count being neutral, it could be a negative. The first book in each series below was the authors first. Thats a fairly representative estimate of word count. Why word count matters when you submit your book the artful. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. The longest is the order of the phoenix with a word count of 257,000 words. How to find word count on your favorite novels nathan. Most young adult novels fall between 55,000 and 70,000 words.

Shorter novels such as fahrenheit 451, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the great gatsby, and slaughterhousefive are between 4050,000 words. The important thing is that your length fits your book. Since just comparing the number of unique words in a book does not take its length into account i decided to calculate the percentage of unique words of the whole text. On the other hand, a high word count doesnt have to be the kiss of death. Words automatic word count is perfectly fine for accuracy for authors. Highlight a section of text by tapping on it with your fingers, then tap on word count to display the number of words in the highlighted portion of your document. Anything above 70k but less than 115k science fiction and fantasy tend to run up around 100k115k words. The daily word counts of 39 famous authors writers write. As for nonfiction books, the standard bestsellers have word counts similar to adult novels. It is a way an author can estimate word count, but its just as easy these days to use the word count function on your average word processing program to get a pretty accurate count. The differences between these four answers are both obvious and subtle. If you want to learn how to write a book, sign up for our online course.

Word also counts pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters. Therefore, the word count of a novel is crucial if you want your book to be fit for publication. Im 55 years of age and writing a book which covers 7 years, from 2001 until 2007, of my life. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook.

Heres what you need to know about this often overlooked. A book length word count is already an approximation. As far as length, popular memoirs range quite a bit from about 60,000 words to 120,000 or more. For a ballpark figure, you have approximately 10,000 words per 50 pages of manuscript if you are using 12pt font and 1 inch margins and doublespaced. Even if you dont have a word count yet, prompts are an excellent way to exercise the writing muscle. Go play cricket or bake a souffle or save the whales. I selected these words or types of words because they are words that i typically overuse. Those of you who dont care about traditional publishing can leave the room now. Word counts for childrens books i received a request awhile ago to do a post on word counts for different age categories in childrens lit. Word counts and other distractions griffin paul jackson. When you need to know how many words, pages, characters, paragraphs, or lines are in a document, check the status bar. Of course, when youre writing the first draft of your story, you want to just get your words out on paper.

In word, the word count will appear on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace. If you are selfpublishing or working with an ebook publisher, file size is more critical than word count. Go on amazon, find the page count in the description. The word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text. Im leaving this in the list to show that word count isnt offered for every book. Calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. The book will be part of a trilogy, and although ive only written little over half of the entire thing, the estimated word count is looking to be nearly 300 000 words.

Novelist jane smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel. Flash fictionwhatever the editor says it is, but usually under 1,000 words. Once you reach that specific word count, stop and leave the cursor in that section. When i harry bingham wrote my first novel, i started to worry that i was off the mark. The word count in picture books is sliding like stocks in 2008. For example, if an author has to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article, essay, report, story, book, paper, you name it. While page counts are a common but not universal feature of bibliographic metadata, word counts are much less frequently provided and are not at all mandatory.

But the word count of a chapter matters if you want your story to flow right. You have just discovered the wonderful world of bibliographic metadata. This is a true statement if your goal is to be published through traditional methods someday. Word count of the a song of ice and fire book series by george r. How to increase your novels word count noveldoctor. However, there is a wide range of acceptable word counts for nonfiction books. Ive looked at articles that say literary agents wont consider a book with a word count of over 100 000, so you can see why im a little concerned. Put a title the exact title in the search engine, then click on the title, or one of the titles if more than one comes up. Word count is the devil you have to love, or at the very least, respect. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 98,916. If youre revising and want to figure out where in the book you met a certain word count, select your text at the very beginning of the document and keep scrolling. Or what is the ideal word count for a business book. Kelly, the scribe by elizabeth hunter, love is a stranger by.

As you can see, established authors get much more flexibility when it comes to the length of their book. If youre a new author, id recommend staying on the shorter side, perhaps around the 75,000 word mark. Popular novels word count 100k 105k books goodreads. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. In word, click the file tab and then click close to return to your publication. To find the count of words, characters, and pages, at the top of the page, click tools word count. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. In itself, no measure is perfect but personally i find word count the most useful. Word count is a very important metric of a writing. But chapter word count is something that you want to keep in. Wordcounter will help to make sure its word count reaches a specific requirement or stays within a certain limit. Its word count will changeat least slightly, and maybe radicallybefore it appears in book form.

Is there a website that gives the word counts on books. If you dont see the word count in the status bar, rightclick the status bar, then and click word count. Word count, with a little help from amazon alexis grant. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 77,876. I have tried searching the words word count plus the title of a novel, like the lovely bones, and all i get is the word count of essays and articles about the book in question, not for the book itself. A novelist of my acquaintance insists that the only way to estimate the number of words in a book is to multiply the number of pages by 250. Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can search in english or spanish using criteria such as atos book level or a lexile measure, interest level, title, author, fictionnonfiction, subject, awardwinners, state lists, ccss exemplars, and more. Eye of the world 317,519 the great hunt 272,117 the dragon reborn 255,441 the shadow rising 399,150 the fires of heaven 359,066.

To summarise the answer to this question, long enough to fulfil the promise you set out in the title of your book, and short enough to achieve your own objectives for the book. Book length word count science fiction and fantasy world. For full titles, authors and descriptions of these books, see whats on my travel memoir bookshelf. Youll notice as your selecting the text, the footer is counting the selected passages. Use this feature for shorter documents, like news articles or school essays. Witness kristys eureka moment, when she gets the idea for a babysitters club and enlists her best friends, shy mary anne and artistic claudia, in an exciting new venture.