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Originally Posted by tecweston
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?
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I remember reading somewhere... it may have been an author's blog or something, maybe John Birmingham or John Scalzi... that the rule of thumb is 200 words per printed page.
If so, that would make
Short Story - up to 37.5 pages
Novellette - 37.5 to 87.5 pages
Novella - 87.5 to 200 pages
Novel - over 200 pages
So, your approximations were pretty close
Of course, I've never actually counted the words on a printed page, so I have no idea how close to real life this rule of thumb is
Paul
Canberra, Australia