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leahbean197

To All My Word Geeks

Oct 05, 2005 00:03

can anyone tell me approximately how many words are in a book. I would need to know how many pages the book is too. Or more specifically approximately how many pages is a 50,000 word book? Thanks.

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waiting4beckett October 5 2005, 04:31:33 UTC

Don't know in exact pages, but it's about the length of a short novel.

Are you thinking about NaNoWriMo?

leahbean197 October 5 2005, 05:47:15 UTC

It just happens to coincide with my moment of inspiration. I started writing a novel and am averaging around 660 words a page. 50,000 words for me would be around 75 pages. NaNoWriMo says that 50,000 words is 175 pages, for me it would be 150 double-spaced pages. I was wondering how many pages it would be in a book, not an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper. 50,000 would be around 200 pages I'm guessing.

mooinabox October 5 2005, 09:12:23 UTC

I can't give you a page count, but I read something NaNoWriMo-related that said The Great Gatsby is slightly less than 50,000 words.

leahbean197 October 6 2005, 01:34:01 UTC

I think I have it about figured out. I'm setting a different goal for myself, I'm going to write a 100,000 word story. Then I'm going probably going to destroy it because it'll suck.