200k words is about the same length as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (199k), Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (202k), Dune by Frank Herbert ((206k), A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer Armentrout (207k), Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (208k). just so you have something to compare to.

Books shelved as 200-000-words: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey, Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, Winter's Tale by...

2019年2月7日 · I always expected this book to be over 200k words, and I ended up hitting the mark this week (first book ever). I've still got probably 50-100k words to go, as well as a month of world building, followed by a highly detailed second draft, but I feel like I'm on the path to getting it …

2014年6月10日 · A: I'll be honest here: The chances of a first-time novelist selling a manuscript that clocks in at 200,000 words is about as likely as me in my 5'8" frame dunking a basketball. There are a few exceptions where a fiction writer—who has a large, established platform—breaks through and sells a behemoth of that size, but it's rare .

2011年8月18日 · it doesn't matter what your software is, 200,000 words is just that: 200,000 words. Typically, how many pages is a book of 100K words? According to the Wordcount tool on MS Word, I would have to keep the book at under 250 pages.

Decide on a target word count and then figure out how many words would need to be removed per page. If you decide on self-pubbed with a higher word count, this could still be good to reduce the book's length slightly.

2013年7月13日 · My 1st novel is a complex, layered, detailed & ambitious narrative. There is NO WAY I can tell the story I want to tell under around 200,000 words. So here's my question - Will my 200K+ words doorstop of a novel be rejected everywhere because it is "too big/long for a 1st time published author"?

Books shelved as novels-word-count-200k-250k: Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn, Darkness Descends by Alisha Ashton, Sempre by J.M. Darhower, The Brotherhood by Th...

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2020年3月30日 · 200,000 words in a 168 hour week would be ~1190 words an hour for the whole time. A more reasonable 16 hour days for all 7 days would be ~1785 words an hour. If they only worked 8 hour days all 7 days it would be ~3571 words per hour. Is that even physically possible? Yes, the average speaking speed is ~130 words per minute or 7800 words per hour.