How many pages should your debut novel have? Not genre fiction, but "serious"/literary fiction.
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>>252614951000 pages50 words per page
>>25261495At least 1
>>25261495Modern-day "literary fiction" is genre fiction.It is marketed as such, and has a dedicated audience. It also has a common theme, namely the lives and concerns of the contemporary middle class.Congrats, you're a genre author. You can stop kidding yourself now.
I have 2 drafts - 75K and 96k respectively. The first one I cannot edit for life as I cringe so much it gives physical pain. The second one, 96k, the editing is going fine. It will end around 90k most likely. I don't know how many pages that is as it depends on the press no?
>>2526149540k words and above. Pages matter less because of the (lack of) printing standard.
William Gaddis – The Recognitions — 956 pp.John Cowper Powys – Wood and Stone — 736 pp.L. F. Céline – Journey to the End of the Night — 625 pp.Thomas Pynchon – V. — 492 pp.Robert Coover – The Origin of the Brunists — 441 pp.Vladimir Sorokin – The Norm — 413 pp.Don DeLillo – Americana — 388 pp.Thomas Bernhard – Frost — 352 pp.William H. Gass – Omensetter's Luck — 336 pp.Peter Carey – Bliss — 336 pp.Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Satantango — 333 pp.Mircea Cartarescu – Nostalgia — 317 pp.Salman Rushdie – Grimus — 317 pp.W. G. Sebald – Vertigo — 298 pp.John Barth – The Floating Opera — 272 pp.P. G. Wodehouse – The Pothunters — 272 pp.Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask — 254 pp.Cormac McCarthy – The Orchard Keeper — 246 pp.V. S. Naipaul – The Mystic Masseur — 215 pp.Paul Auster – City of Glass — 203 pp.Kazuo Ishiguro – A Pale View of Hills — 192 pp.Italo Calvino – The Path to the Spiders' Nests — 185 pp.Donald Barthelme – Snow White — 181 pp.Julian Barnes – Metroland — 176 pp.Michel Houellebecq – Whatever — 176 pp.J. M. Coetzee – In the Heart of the Country — 139 pp.Vladimir Nabokov – Mary — 128 pp.
>>25261495215
>>25261495Fewer than 200.
>>252614955 paragraphs
>>25261863Cool, happy for you. Now answer my question.
>>25261495bout 3 fiddy
>>25261907Let's see some newer generations.
>>25261866Get an editor?
