Many modern novels in other languages are around 50,000 words. If you go back to the history of NaNo, it's why they chose 50,000 words in the first place. Because the traditional novel, as you said, is only meant to be about 250 pages in pocket size. Unless you take a look at the novels of Russian authors like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, that spend 50 pages talking about wheat. Even though today we are used to long, meandering epics that go on forever in English, other cultures and their literature tends to be more precise and compact.

Anyway, I'm aiming for 50,000 but no more. That will be more than enough to tell the story.

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