The long and the short of it
If you’re writing fiction with the intention of selling your work, wordcounts are what count. Always have, always will.
The question is, what do you want to write – that is, short fiction, novels or something in between? This isn’t an idle question. As with anything that has a potential market, you have to know what you’re aiming at, because the markets are very different.
With magazines, for example, most short fiction lies somewhere between 500-2,000 words, with a few accepting longer works, especially with serials.
If you’re thinking books, then you have to reckon on a total
