technical question
technical question
Ok sorry if there's already been a post about this, but I was just wondering if there was a conversion thingie as to how many words is a single published book page. And also how many words would people say is a collection of short stories? So far I have around 13,000 words. How many books size pages would that be, does anyone know? Thanks.
Re: technical question
A standard published prose page is about 350 words. However, actual count varies widely from book to book and writer to writer. A short story collection often has a lot of added content, and frequently page padding to reach a standard economy of scale design layout. Best of anthologies regularly have content crammed in too, to accommodate more content.
For a writer, a working published format page count bases estimates on the idealized number of words, not actual wordprocesor word count, but a typesetters' word count, i.e., one full page of Standard Manuscript Format in a monospaced 12 point typeface equals 250 words, 25 lines of 10 idealized words, and multiply manuscript page count times 0.70 for published format page count. 13,000 words in wordprocessor word count might be equivalent to anywhere from 50 to 60 SMF manuscript pages, or somewhere in the range of 35 to 45 or so published format pages. Plus a few, say, a minimum of a dozen frontmatter and backmatter pages.
To illustrate, the word I is equivalent to one-sixth of an idealized word. An idealized word is approximately six glyphs, Easter is one idealized word.
Book page counts vary widely as well. A thinner book might have on average 240 or so pages. Thicker 400 or so. A middle grade book might have up to 160 or so. Anything less than 48 or so pages causes binding headaches and usually defauts to wire stitch binding, a folded and stapled chapbook, instead of perfection binding, glued gather and glued on cover, or signature stitched binding, casecover or hardback.
For a writer, a working published format page count bases estimates on the idealized number of words, not actual wordprocesor word count, but a typesetters' word count, i.e., one full page of Standard Manuscript Format in a monospaced 12 point typeface equals 250 words, 25 lines of 10 idealized words, and multiply manuscript page count times 0.70 for published format page count. 13,000 words in wordprocessor word count might be equivalent to anywhere from 50 to 60 SMF manuscript pages, or somewhere in the range of 35 to 45 or so published format pages. Plus a few, say, a minimum of a dozen frontmatter and backmatter pages.
To illustrate, the word I is equivalent to one-sixth of an idealized word. An idealized word is approximately six glyphs, Easter is one idealized word.
Book page counts vary widely as well. A thinner book might have on average 240 or so pages. Thicker 400 or so. A middle grade book might have up to 160 or so. Anything less than 48 or so pages causes binding headaches and usually defauts to wire stitch binding, a folded and stapled chapbook, instead of perfection binding, glued gather and glued on cover, or signature stitched binding, casecover or hardback.
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Re: technical question
According to Evan Marshall's "Novel Writing", the formula is:
number of book pages x number of lines on a full page x 9 = number of words
Reversing that, your story is 13,000
13000 divided by 9 words per line = 1444
1444 divided by 33 lines per page = 44
number of book pages x number of lines on a full page x 9 = number of words
Reversing that, your story is 13,000
13000 divided by 9 words per line = 1444
1444 divided by 33 lines per page = 44
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