Page Count for Jesus

[mhalachai]

As part of a comment that I was composing for a friend, I happened to check out how long Inevitable was, at 11-point font.

1,254 pages in Word.

1,254 PAGES. In WORD.

SO FAR.

I have five chapters left to write and probably 100 pages. That's insanely long.

I really need to get back to that story. Which leads to the dilemma: Inevitable or Dawning Light?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If you want to compare them to printed books, count the number of words and divide by 600, which gives you the approximate number of pages assuming a normal page layout and typeface, or 700 for a densly printed book. I just checked and Inevitable is about 480k words, so would be about an 800 page book given a normal paperback layout. So you've still got some way to go to reach the Tom Clancy sort of supersized book.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Still. That's pretty verbose, even for me. My Oxford Engligh dictionary (paperback) is only 934 pages long.