Editing Novella (section)

==Definition==
The Italian term is a feminine of ''novello'', which means ''new'', similarly to the English word ''news''.<ref name="mw">{{cite web |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novella |title=Novella – Definition |website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary online |access-date=7 March 2010 |archive-date=1 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701163852/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novella |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Merriam-Webster]] defines a novella as "a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a [[short story]] and a [[novel]]".<ref name="mw" />
There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Jack|date=October 26, 2018|title=The novella: Stepping stone to success or waste of time?|url=https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/fiction/novella/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=The Writer|language=en-US|quote=A novella typically starts at about 20,000 words and tops out at 50,000, which is the minimum length for a short novel. There’s no mathematical exactness about this word range, but generally speaking, when a work falls a few thousand below 20,000 words, it’s a novelette, and when it falls under 7,000 words, it’s a short story. When it’s 50,000 and climbing, it’s a short novel, until it hits about 80,000 words, and then it’s a standard novel.|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028200128/https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/fiction/novella/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association]] defines a novella's [[word count]] to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sfwa.org/awards/faq.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319043837/http://sfwa.org/awards/faq.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-03-19|title=What's the definition of a "novella," "novelette," etc.?|website=[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Word Count Separates Short Stories from Novelettes and Novellas – International Association of Professional Writers and Editors|url=https://iapwe.org/word-count-separates-short-stories-from-novelettes-and-novellas/|access-date=2020-09-06|language=en-US|archive-date=1 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101233238/https://iapwe.org/word-count-separates-short-stories-from-novelettes-and-novellas/|url-status=live}}</ref> at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages. [[#Word counts|See below]] for definitions used by other organisations.