Top Tips on How to Write a Novella

And stop it becoming the first novel in a twelve-book series

Most fiction writers tend to work with one or two types of stories. The first is the short story, typically anything up to 8,000 words. The second is the novel — typically anything over 40,000 words.

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There are various length works between these — novelettes, novellas, and short…