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Originally Posted by paul1403
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
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And I think that in a novelette you usually can do thinks that are much harder to do in a short story. I fell when reading the Hugo nominations that you usually get different kind of works. Novellas are more like a short novels. But a novelette can be something that is different both from a short novel and a short story.