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Ask HN: how do I find the word-count of novels?
I'm going to write a book (with a friend). But I don't know how many words to write. I know the type of book we want to write: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Died_with_a_Felafel_in_His_Hand. But I don't know how many words these types of novels are. 10,000 words? 20,000? 40,000? Is there a web-app that returns the word count? Amazon? Google Books?
- resdirector 16y agoClickable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Died_with_a_Felafel_in_His_Hand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Died_with_a_Felafel_in_His_H...
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI've just pulled a novel off the shelf behind me. It has about 200 pages, each line has about 35 or 40 lines, each line has 10 to 15 words. 35 x 15 = 525 38 x 13 = 494 40 x 11 = 440 It's about 450 words per page, 200 pages, 900x100 = 90,000 words. A second novel pulled out at random has 330 pages of 38 lines with 12 words/line. The better answer is - as many as it takes.