logoalt Hacker News

TheOtherHobbes • today at 7:37 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

There's been a trend for some genres to bloat. The usual industry guidance is that a novel shouldn't be more than 100k words, but 120k words is tolerable at a push. But some fantasy and adjacent writers have been producing 200k words, and plenty of readers love them.

200k on a screen is trivial, but in paper form it's a monster.