How long should a novel be?

How long should a novel be?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: Where do I start and what should I write about?; What qualities does a writer need?; How long does it take to write a novel? and more...

A novel tends to be anything over 75,000 words. I think that's the minimum. Anything less than that might get called a novella and that is another publishing experience. Seventy-five thousand words minimum, 100,000, 150,000 is quite common in a novel. That would probably be three to five hundred pages in a published book.