Janice Harayda
Apr 14, 2023

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Wow. Sixty thousand words used to be the standard length for a book! It's crept up to about 80,000 in the past decade or so, but many books still have about 60,000. You certainly don't need any of those productivity hacks we keep reading about here.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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