{"id":2183,"date":"2010-08-06T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2010-08-12T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T08:49:51","slug":"50-000-palabras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2010\/08\/06\/50-000-palabras\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>People often ask how long should their novel be. We&#8217;ve all faced the problem of wanting to fill up two hundred pages and having nothing to say after only didty. Contests often deman a minimum of 50.000 words. What is the right length of a novel?<\/p>\n<p>Let the experts speak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Count von Count\" src=\"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/images\/count.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" \/>Lewis Carroll, <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> \u2013 26.700 words<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Conrad, <em>Heart of Darkness<\/em> \u2013 38.500 words<\/li>\n<li>H. P. Lovecraft, <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> \u2013 41.300 words<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Grahame, <em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em> \u2013 58.800 words<\/li>\n<li>Arthur Conan Doyle, <em>The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em> \u2013 59.600 words<\/li>\n<li>Isaac Asimov, <em>Foundation<\/em> \u2013 66.000 words<\/li>\n<li>James Joyce, <em>Dubliners<\/em> \u2013 67.500 words<\/li>\n<li>J. D. Salinger, <em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em> \u2013 74.000 words<\/li>\n<li>J. K. Rowling, <em>Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal<\/em> &#8211; 77.000 words<\/li>\n<li>Orson Scott Card, <em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em> \u2013 101.200 words<\/li>\n<li>George Orwell, <em>1984<\/em> \u2013 104.000 words<\/li>\n<li>Stephen King, <em>The Shining<\/em> &#8211; 162.000 words<\/li>\n<li>Leopoldo Alas Clar\u00edn, <em>La Regenta<\/em> &#8211; &#8211; <del>30.400<\/del> 309.000  words<\/li>\n<li>Miguel de Cervantes , <em>Don Quixote<\/em> &#8211; 383.000 words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you see, both classics and recent best-sellers range in a wide variety of possible lengths. In other words: a novel is as long as it is. It will last for as long as the story requires. Asimov and Carroll were quite consisten in the length of their sequels -perhaps because they were, with all due respect, more of the same-, while for Card and Rowling the sequels grew longer as their universes expanded.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at your bookshelves: are the books thick, thin, or every size? And which are your favourites? That might be the type of novel that you&#8217;re best at writing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask how long should their novel be. We&#8217;ve all faced the problem of wanting to fill up two hundred pages and having nothing to say after only didty. Contests often deman a minimum of 50.000 words. What is the right length of a novel? Let the experts speak: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[103,52],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-narrativa","tag-perogrulladas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}