🙂 Made the "mistake" of going for a pace-and-think while everyone's getting ready for the 5pm Colombia-Panamá quarter-final for Copa América, so now I'm pre-writing this novelette in the best of happy, boisterous company out in public, with TVs everywhere rarin' to go. #AGoodDay 🇨🇴 🇵🇦 #SportsBall
@MLClark I think Ellison called a novella “a novel wearing lace”, is a novelette a novel in a thong? Other?
Ellison's a funny sod. 🙃 Famous novellas include: Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Old Man and the Sea, A Christmas Carol, Siddhartha, Heart of Darkness, The Time Machine...
And I'm pretty sure The Death of Ivan Ilyich is technically a novelette!
But it's true that this "novel in scanties" category was mainly created for awards circuits. Still, it's not the size of the tome that counts, so much as what the author does with each word!