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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have to confess that I find the splitting of the short story category into finer and finer gradations to be rather bizarre. "Novelette"? Do we really need such a word?  |
It's been there for as long as the awards have been given, I believe. Dividing things into only "short story" and "novel" would be more bizarre. "If it's less than 60,000 words, it's a short story." would get people expressing concerns about your sanity.
The odd man out actually tends to be the novella, and there has been squabbling about what it is.
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Dennis