User:Stevenarntson/English Composition/lengths

Long To Short
Novel Novella Novelette Short Story Sudden Fiction 69er “Novels In Three Lines” Six Word Stories
 * at least 60,000 words.
 * NaNoWriMo happens every November. Here is an inspiring essay by indie author Jim Monroe.
 * Wikipedia's list of the Longest Novels includes Marcel Proust's 1.2-million word long Remembrance of Things Past. But there are other interesting contenders, such as the 17-million word long Marienbad My Love (which is available online for free).
 * 17,000 to 40,000 words.
 * 7,500 to 17,000 words
 * Should be readable in one sitting. Tobias Wolf's story Bullet in the Brain is a fair example of this crowded field.
 * 7,500 words maximum is often suggested.
 * Also called flash fiction, it is less than 1,000 words.
 * 69 words, not including the title.
 * Contest Finalists
 * This is a book by Felix Feneon (trans. by Luc Sante), of super-short newspaper stories, such as:
 * Nurse Elise Bachman, whose day off was yesterday, put on a public display of insanity.
 * "If my candidate loses, I will kill myself,” M. Bellavoine, of Fresquienne, Seine-Inferieure, had declared. He killed himself.
 * Women suckling their infants argued the workers’ cause to the director of the streetcar lines in Toulon. He was unmoved.


 * For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
 * --Ernest Hemmingway


 * Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
 * --Alan Moore

Pwoermds
 * are 1-word poems.
 * The word was coined by poet Geof Huth.
 * Cropse
 * --James Joyce
 * Lighf
 * --Bob Grumman
 * Omissin
 * --endwar
 * egreturnswampwateripple
 * --Emily Romano

The Three Shortest Possible Poems
 * I
 * A
 * O