Small Milestone
With the publication of this chapter, the story has exceeded 70,000 words so far. Considering most publishers choose to publish most contemporary novels in the 80,000 +/- 10,000 word range, this story can officially be considered a book (in my opinion, lol). That’s not taking the fantasy genre into account though, which is generally around 100,000 +/- 10,000 words (these numbers are for new authors). Fantasy genres have world building, and modern fiction books do not need to do so (the world already exists). Technically, I’m still in the world-building phase and introducing everyone to the world, its systems, and the geography. The world is much, much bigger than what I’ve so far shown you, and we’re just now getting out of the first city (minus the prologue) at chapter 26 and 70,000 words.
I hope you enjoy this next chapter! It can be read here: Chapter 26 – Striving Onward