Re: I'm new!

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> > In Swedish, a short story is called 'novell' and a novel is
> > called "roman". Confusing, isn't it? :)
>
> Hmm, a little German influence here, I suppose?  But the word "novella"
> is current in English, though not as well known as "short story" or
> "novel".
<rueful look>  SFWA has word-count definitions of "short story,"
"novella," "novelette" and "novel," though I only remember than short
story is < 7500 words and novel is > 40,000 words.  I don't know how
common this division is outside of sf/f, but you do occasionally have to
be familiar with it when looking at magazine submissions guidelines.

YHL