Your 50k word novel will probably not be ready for primetime, if it’s intended to be a full length novel for adults, but I think how close or far away you get to 50k in the writing tells you a lot about the story and what you have or need. That feels sooooooo short to me, for a novel, but YMMV. A 50,000 word manuscript is about 165 pages. what you type, before it’s a book page), with 12pt font and one inch margins is about 300 words. How big is the book? The font? The margins? Are there a lot of charts or pictures? You can make a page anything you want, as we all discovered when we started typing papers in school.Ī standard typed manuscript page (i.e. People ask me how many pages should it be and I have no idea. Today, we’re going to talk about why (probably) NaNoWriMo’s goal is 50,000 words.Ī lesson you learn early on when talking to publishing people is that we always talk in word count, not page number.

Today: word counts! We talked a long time ago about basic word count ranges for different genres. BUT, just because I’m not doing it doesn’t mean I can’t give y’all some information that might help you do it, or help those of you who might want to write a longer thing, fiction or non-fiction, down the line. I don’t have time to write a novel this month, which should come to the great relief of my clients, to whom I own many things. It’s day, 5 of NaNoWriMo and I have written exactly ZERO WORDS.