User blog comment:Elitolu/Legacy of Rella complete!/@comment-27572804-20090606061104

Actually Brandon, the amount of words is still "arguably" different. Many say 40k, while others (like myself) say 50k for a novel, for example. See Wikipedia for more. But for our standards, what we voted on, per these, a novel is greater than 50k and short story is at least 5k.