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Apr. 13th, 2019 11:12 pmSFWA's boundary between short stories and novelettes, for Nebula Award purposes, is 7500 words. I have four published fanfics longer than that. One's the HP AU2 novel-length, one's the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_j2_bigbang novella-length, and the latter is crap and I'm afraid to find out about the former. Two more clock in under 7.6K and I'm entirely comfortable fudging the line to call the one-shot a short story; the chaptered work, dunno how to class it precisely, but obviously I need to italicize the work title (though I don't think I have been) because the chapter titles get quote marks.
The piece in the middle, though. The 10.6K story I just finished in draft. (Which I can't break into chapters because the first two scenes total under 1.6K, the fourth and final scene is 2.4K, and there's just no good way to divide that!) Definitely a novelette. But do I italicize its title, like a novella or novel, or put it in quote marks, like a short story?
spn_j2_bigbang novella-length, and the latter is crap and I'm afraid to find out about the former. Two more clock in under 7.6K and I'm entirely comfortable fudging the line to call the one-shot a short story; the chaptered work, dunno how to class it precisely, but obviously I need to italicize the work title (though I don't think I have been) because the chapter titles get quote marks.The piece in the middle, though. The 10.6K story I just finished in draft. (Which I can't break into chapters because the first two scenes total under 1.6K, the fourth and final scene is 2.4K, and there's just no good way to divide that!) Definitely a novelette. But do I italicize its title, like a novella or novel, or put it in quote marks, like a short story?