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novel/novella/novelette?
Still catching up on the thread, and realised I should have said Thank You! before, for doing this, so Thank You!
I think I more-or-less understand the novel being a house, or chair, or something you can take apart and rebuild, and a short story being a baked good (I've never made or eaten Key Lime pie, but I suppose the simile holds for other desserts) where you put the pieces together and they blend indissolubly, or not.
But I've just finished what I meant to be a short story until it grew to 11k, becoming a novelet(te), according to at least one word-count chart.
Are novellas and novelettes more like novels, or more like short stories, or is this a case-by-case decision? If it is case-by-case, what sort of factors would be considered?
It affects how I approach the revising, and how much I can hack the draft up without spoiling it, I think.
-Barbara
Still catching up on the thread, and realised I should have said Thank You! before, for doing this, so Thank You!
I think I more-or-less understand the novel being a house, or chair, or something you can take apart and rebuild, and a short story being a baked good (I've never made or eaten Key Lime pie, but I suppose the simile holds for other desserts) where you put the pieces together and they blend indissolubly, or not.
But I've just finished what I meant to be a short story until it grew to 11k, becoming a novelet(te), according to at least one word-count chart.
Are novellas and novelettes more like novels, or more like short stories, or is this a case-by-case decision? If it is case-by-case, what sort of factors would be considered?
It affects how I approach the revising, and how much I can hack the draft up without spoiling it, I think.
-Barbara