- One-Shot
- A term used mostly often in fanfictions to say that there will only be one body of text. (One chapter)
- Between 500 and 1,500 to 2,000 words.
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- Short Story
- A brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose. Short stories have no set length. In terms of word count there is no official demarcation between an anecdote, a short story, and a novel.
- Less than 7,500 words.
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- Serial
- A publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous (typically chronological) installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. More generally, serial is applied in library and information science to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion."
- Between 8,000 and 14,000 words.
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- Novelette
- A short novel, typically one that is light and romantic or sentimental in character.
- 7,500 to 17,500 words.
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- Novella
- A written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. The English word "novella" derives from the Italian "novella", feminine of "novello", which means "new". The novella is a common literary genre in several European languages.
- 17,500 to 40,000 words.
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- Novel
- A long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
- Over 40,000 words.
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- Prose
- A form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech rather than a rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry). While there are critical debates on the construction of prose, its simplicity and loosely defined structure have led to its adoption for use in the majority of spoken dialogue, factual discourse and both topical and fictional writing. It is commonly used, for example, in literature, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, broadcasting, film, history, philosophy, law and many other forms of communication.
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- Poetry
- A form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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