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Talk:Guardians (Stargate SG-1/Supernatural zine)
Need some advice here: I moved this article to "novel" but wonder if it should be "fic" or "fanfic" or "story"? The template, as it stands, lists "medium" as "fanfiction" which is incorrect, and makes the whole deal more confusing. I'm not comfortable determining which online fics are "novels" or "novelettes" or "stories" when defining them here. With zines, it's been pretty clear cut as a single work, whatever the length, gets called a novel (even when I cringe at a 20-page "novel") and collections of stories are anthologies. But when labeling an online thing, the person entering the info is going to have to decide just how many words determine its form and that's where it gets dicey. I guess I'd vote to make this The Guardian (Stargate SG-1 story). What to do? Mrs. Potato Head 14:32, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well, this story has over 56,000 words, which for me is pretty comfortably in the "novel" category. Below forty thousand words but longer than short stories I call stories "novella" (I guess some also make a "novelette" distinction inbetween). I know some extend the "novella" to up to seventy thousand words, and novel only above that, but forty is a pretty common distinction, because some awards use it.--RatCreature 14:50, 20 February 2010 (UTC)