How many words in a novel?

[Kor]

A few months ago, I started to write a novel and today I got to the one hundreth page (though on paper it'd probably be more, especially since I haven't work with an editor yet and the way I'm writing isn't the most correct way.)

So far I got to something like 45000 words and I'm not even half way through (I'm writing way more than what I am usually expecting in each chapter. I thought the first chapter would be just 15 pages but it turned into 37 and i had to split it in half.)

I'm writing in english and it is a fantasy genre (though I tried to write a mystery one but I found myself stealing ideas from Gosho so I stopped.)

So how many words is the avarage novel?

[Eve]

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[Kor]

THANKS A LOT!!!

gathering data for fantasy novel:

80000-120000

125000

100000-130000

And I thought that I'm writing too much and it seems like I was writing nothing until now. That's great. If I work everyday for the next month, I'll be able to finish this (I have a lot of free time, but I can't get myself to write 10 pages in a row, so every few pages, I watch an episode in an anime that I like, but now I'm all out of anime and need to find a new one  )

[Kor]

My moto is: If J.K. Rowling can, anyone can!

I never read her work and only watched the movies. I kind of hate her actually. I don't know why, maybe because she sues too many people with the excuse that the are copping from her work...

[Jd-]

Around 80,000 is the norm, but it's also important to keep in mind that the work does need to be tight. Publishing houses want books they can sell--even going over 100,000 is a bit of a risk, depending on the genre in question.

[Kor]

/\/\/\\ thats new to me 

but she's right, the thing i hate most in life is copying, if someone did that to me i'd sue them til judgment day 

But the thing is, that in most of the cases they don't copy from her and she just think they do.

Plus, the facts which she claim may not always be solid proof. She claims that the name Harry Potter came from her childhood neighbor. However, before 20 years (or something like that) there was a movie with trolls and the main character's name was (guess what) HARRY POTTER, and what else? He had magical abilities. (the movie isn't so known and was ranked as one of the worst movies in the history.)

Harry Potter is known in my country since like...10 years ago maybe. When I was 8 or 9. Even then I didn't want to read these books while the craziness was all around me. My twin brother read it, my friends read it. But I wasn't so much into books at the time. The movies are nice but for some odd reason I really don't like Rowling. Usually I tell people that it's because there is not even one single jewish wizard (as a joke) or for that arguement, any other religoun. Which is probably for the best because she doesn't want to make characters and then they will say she makes streotypes. But, she was asked once about Dumbeldor (after the release of the seventh book) and she said that he was gay. Isn't that a fact that could have been put into paper? Why did she not write it somewhere? She probably didn't want the popularity to drop down after she made a gay character. But after she gets her money, she says whatever she wants. Maybe it was only to show that gays could be wizards too. To me this whole deal looked fishy to begin with.

(I say what I say as one who didn't read the books so I may be wrong about a few points there. I say what I know.)

[Kor]

Around 80,000 is the norm, but it's also important to keep in mind that the work does need to be tight. Publishing houses want books they can sell--even going over 100,000 is a bit of a risk, depending on the genre in question.

Yeah, I thought about that too. I had like 18 chapters in mind but I decreased it to 13 because lack of plot and story development. After I wiped away so much already from my mind, it'll be a pain to remove more.
My main problem is probably the fact that I'm writing a novel series, and that some of the characters are more important later on and in this part, they are only there and don't matter much. Of course they have an effect on the story and the main characters, but if I need to decrease even more from what I already did, it'd make a problem later on.

The genre is fantasy, however since it's my first time that I write, it's hard to know how publishing houses are going to accept my work.

EDIT: Now that I think about it. I can only cut out one more chapter from what I had intended (though it'd look odd to have 12 chapters, yet so many pages/words.) because that chapter doesn't add to the storyline of this novel anything.
One side of me says that I should write only what I should and make it long so the publishers will think that I'm serious. But the other part says that I shouldn't make it too long because I want this thing to get published.

So for conclusion, should i have only like 80000-100000 words?