Hi everyone!
I'm very new to novel writing having been a journalist and then doing some web writing. What's the average I should expect for a novel? I have two that I've been working on although I've focused most of my attention on one of them. It's a pretty light-hearted contemporary fiction novel. The other is more of an intrigue story most closely related to a James Patterson novel. (God, I hope.) I sense that it will be longer as the reader will expect more detail, and the scenes will need more meat to them.
Am I wrong to assume a 100,000 words roughly? Don't laugh if that's way off. I'm not so sure how a page of text in Word translates in terms of novel pages. I have that number in the back of my head, and I'm not sure if it's because I've read it somewhere or because it's a nice, round number.
I'm very new to novel writing having been a journalist and then doing some web writing. What's the average I should expect for a novel? I have two that I've been working on although I've focused most of my attention on one of them. It's a pretty light-hearted contemporary fiction novel. The other is more of an intrigue story most closely related to a James Patterson novel. (God, I hope.) I sense that it will be longer as the reader will expect more detail, and the scenes will need more meat to them.
Am I wrong to assume a 100,000 words roughly? Don't laugh if that's way off. I'm not so sure how a page of text in Word translates in terms of novel pages. I have that number in the back of my head, and I'm not sure if it's because I've read it somewhere or because it's a nice, round number.
