Short Story/Novella/Novel

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Varthikes

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This question just came to me:

When does a short story becomes a novella, a novella becomes a novel?


I've been writing a series of stories that average fifty pages divided into about 10 chapters. Kind of like Kafka's "Metamorphosis". I've been calling them short stories, but would "novella" be more appropriate?

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I don't remember the minimum for short stories, but they go up to about 30,000 words. Novellas are about 30-60,000 words. Are you referring to your individual stories when you ask if novella would be more appropriate, or the whole work? Is it a collection?
 

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The link ccarver30 gives is exactly right. Short stories to 7,500 words, novelettes to 17,500, novellas to 30-40K, depending on genre.
 
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