{"id":2323,"date":"2009-07-02T00:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T05:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2009-07-02T00:45:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T05:45:46","slug":"an-embarassment-of-riches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"An embarassment of riches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been copying my posts month by month to organize them for the book. They will provide me with text, context and a time frame. I can do a search on topics like, the chamber of Commerce or School Board meetings to give me instant time lines.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to turn in when I decided to do a word check to see how many words I&#8217;d posted in the recently completed month of June. Turns out its over 30,000. <\/p>\n<p>Then I checked May and it was 29,400 words. In the past two years I&#8217;ve taken breaks from blogging to write in other venues about the Red Plan controversy. This, of course, doesn&#8217;t even take into consideration the emails I&#8217;ve sent out. If I had simply written 30,000 words a month for two years on the Red Plan I&#8217;d have cranked out three quarters of a million words about it by now.<\/p>\n<p>That got me curious. I&#8217;ve figured the most reasonable size for a book would be about 200 pages. Not too big. Not too small. So how many words would that be?<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080218123920AAA40q1\">this page <\/a>which gives some idea of the number of words in a paperback book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every publisher has their own guidelines as to word counts and what&#8217;s what, but here is a general idea according to what I&#8217;ve heard over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Short&#8230; 7,000 to 20,000<br \/>\nNovella&#8230; 20,000 to 40,000<br \/>\nCatagory&#8230; 40,000 to 65,000<br \/>\nNovel&#8230; 65,000 to 90,000<br \/>\nNovel Plus&#8230; 90,000 to 120,000<br \/>\nSuper Novel&#8230; 120,000+<\/p>\n<p>But wikipedia says differently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Flash Fiction&#8230; 1,000 to 3,000<br \/>\nShort&#8230; 3,000 to 15,000<br \/>\nNovelette&#8230; 7,500 to 17,500<br \/>\nNovella&#8230; 17,500 to 40,000<br \/>\nNovel&#8230; 40,000 to 75,000<br \/>\nEpic&#8230; 75,000+<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I won&#8217;t have to write this book so much as edit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been copying my posts month by month to organize them for the book. They will provide me with text, context and a time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}