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Originally Posted by HarryT
Definitions vary, but a common one (used for the Hugo classifications):
Short story: up to 7500 words
Novelette: 7500 - 17500 words
Novella: 17500 to 40000 words
Novel: Over 40000 words
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As someone who is just a reader and not a writer, word counts really don't mean anything to me. Could those numbers be translated to page counts?
I've never really heard of a novelette (except mentioned in a Belle & Sebastian song), but the way I've always thought it went was, a short story is up to 50 pages or so, a novella is 50-150 pages, and a novel is anything over that. Is that about right?