Novel - a piece of long narrative in literary prose
Novel - a long, fictional narrative which describes human experiences
Narrative prose - meant to entertain and tell a story
Narrative prose - a description of a chain of events which includes a cast of characters, a setting, and an ending
Flash Fiction - under 500 words
Short Story - between 1 000 and 8 000 words
Longshortstory - between 5 000 and 10 000 words
Novella - story that is between 10 000 to 40 000 words
Novella - a skilled reader can usually finish in a day
Novel - manuscript over 40 000 words
Novel - minimun word count is 50 000
Novel - between 60 000 and 100 000 words
Epics - books over the 110 000 word count
What makes a novel a novel?
The work should be complete narrative prose, and not a piece of non-fiction, shopping list/a laboriously long poem
What makes a novel a novel?
It should be long enought to distinguish it from a "short story"
What makes a novel a novel?
There should be at least 1 character and 1 POV. Not 1/the other. This is to discriminate against books that spend 300 pages describing the weather
What makes a novel a novel?
The narrative should follow a structure of some sort, eg, beginning, middle, end, but not necessarily in that order
What makes a novel a novel?
There should be at least 1 conflict/challenge that character(s) must overcome. They don't necessarily have to learn anything
What makes a novel a novel?
It should be finished. That is, the author is happy that the narrative arc has been satisfied
11 Different genres/types of novels
Historical
Realistic
Romance
Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Crime Fiction and Detective Fiction
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Utopian
Dystopian
Children's Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
Historical - novel set in a period earlier than that of the writing and/or describes a particular time period
Examples of Historical Novels
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Without Seeing the Dawn by Stevan Javellana
Realistic - also called as "Novel of Manners"
Realistic - genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people/animal in a believable setting
Realistic - stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people
Romance - about love and passion
Romance - normally, the focus is on 2 characters who fall in love but have problems/obstacles keeping them apart, and there is a happy ending
Horror - focused on creating emotions of terror and dread in the reader
Thrillers - designed to make the reader's pulse race, to keep him/her turning pages
Thrillers - often about a crime that is going to be committed/a disaster that is going to happen if the hero(ine) doesn't prevent it
Mystery - genre whose stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation,/circumstance that needs to be solved, focusing on deception
Crime Fiction - refers to a fictional narrative where a crime is committed, followed by an investigation conducted by a professional/amateur sleuth to solve the crime
Detective Fiction - subgenre of crime fiction where the exploration of a crime committed focuses on a lead detective and their ways of investigating
Fantasy - about imaginary
worlds. The imaginary part usually involves magic or
supernatural beings
Science Fiction - fiction that imagines possible
alternatives to reality. It is reality + "What-if."
Science Fiction - the imaginary part is based on known scientific facts
Utopian - community/society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities
Utopian - common literary theme, especially in
speculative fiction and science fiction
Dystopian - unpleasant (typically repressive) society