The average reader will read 700,000 words in 38.9 hours when reading at a speed of 300 words per minute (wpm).
If you're a slow reader, you may read at closer to 125 to 200 words per minute. This means reading 750,000 words will take you between 62.5 and 100 hours. Want to read faster?
If you're a fast reader, you may read at closer to 400 words per minute. This means reading 70,000 words will take you around 2.9 hours.
Average Word Count For A Novel
The average word count for adult fiction is between 70,000 to 120,000 words. For children's fiction, the general rule is the younger the audience the shorter the book, and for YA novels the average is 50,000-70,000 words. Non-fiction word counts sit between 70,000-120,000 words.
60,000 words is 120 pages single-spaced or 240 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 60,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 200 minutes to read 60,000 words.
The average reader will read 700,000 words in 38.9 hours when reading at a speed of 300 words per minute (wpm). Typical documents that are 700,000 words or more include full-length novels.
A 700,000 word count will create about 1400 pages with single spacing or 2800 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Arial font, and a standard A4 (letter size) page size.
The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.
For example, if you're writing for genres that have a word count range of 80,000-89,999 words (i.e. Mainstream, Thriller, Horror, Romance, Suspense, Mystery, and Literary) and you want to adhere to the 3,000–5,000 word count range per chapter, then that would probably entail about 16 to 30 chapters.
If you're writing your first novel, the general rule of thumb for novel writing is a word count in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length. Anything over 110,000 words is considered too long for a fiction novel.
Here's what I discovered. Out of 97% of people who begin writing a novel: 30 out of 1000 go on to finish it. Only 6 out of those 30 go on to see their novel published.
40,000 to 70,000 word novel – 3 to 4 months. 70,000 to 100,000 word novel – 5 to 8 months.
On 11 January 2007 the author stepped out of Edinburgh's Balmoral hotel having completed the last novel in the Harry Potter series — the culmination of 17 years of writing. But that wasn't all J.K. Rowling wrote while she was there…
If you're a slow reader, you may read at closer to 125 to 200 words per minute. This means reading 100,000 words will take you between 8.3 and 13.3 hours.
750000 in words is written as Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand (in International Number System) or Seven Lakh Fifty Thousand (Indian Number System.
Below I have listed word count guidelines for most genres. Mysteries / Thrillers / Suspense: 70,000 to 90,000 – The variation covers Cozy Mysteries 70-75k. Romance: 40,000 to 100,000 but for mainstream romance novels 70K-100K.
In general, the Safe Zone for adult fiction is 70,000-100,000, and the Safe Zone for adult nonfiction is 60,000-90,000 words. Less than that and your book is probably too short. More than that and your book is probably too long.
The fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is the longest book in the series, yet it is the second-shortest film at 2 hours 18 minutes.
Some argue that anything over 40,000 words can be considered a novel. The general consensus, however, is that a novel should be at least 50,000 words long, is approximately 200 pages. This means that 200 pages is a sufficient length for a novel.
A 70,000-word book is about 280 pages. An 80,000-word book is about 320 pages. A 90,000-word book is about 360 pages. A 100,000-word book is about 400 pages.
Visualizing one million
Information: Not counting spaces, the text printed on 136 pages of an Encyclopædia Britannica, or 600 pages of pulp paperback fiction contains approximately one million characters.
Now, when you are looking at the average number of words in a published novel, being single spaced and often printed in 10 or 11 Pt. font, the number could be double from that of above, making an 800K word book, about 1,333.33 pages in length.