edited: wrong thread, lol
but for this thread...
if you take the whole web-novel thing out of the equation.
and think of a one shot as just a single paperback.
80k words was what I saw was universally considered the official novel length.
this is your box standard 185 to 225 page pulp paperback that used line the book shelves.
That is indeed true. Regularly, 80 k to 100 k, in fact, is the regular paperback size.
In general, people read differently online and I've also caught myself thinking of the novel's overall storyline in a different manner than when I was thinking about a book that was meant to be a paperback.
When my novels used to span around 100+ k words, the first Webnovel season I finished, which was meant to make a paperback in the end (it will, still, but it will be juicy, not gonna lie; it's gonna be THICC) wound up to be a whopping 220+ k words in length.
There's also the difference that I mentioned in how the story goes - there is still the original rough steps of the typical hero's journey, but it's told in arcs, like one long story, not in three acts, the way a regular story is told. The reason for that being the way you just read it "on end"; there may be seasons, but their not as short as a regular book would be and even if they were, the feeling is a lot different from holding onto several books, because you just "keep reading" instead. That, I believe, is also why they turn out so long.
But that's just the results of me reflecting on that topic for a while, so take it with a grain of salt.
