Here are some other specific examples of paranoia: 1  Loathing or hatred of activities you or normal people would usually feel comfortable in, such as parties, large crowds, and the mall.  Excessive worry about what people think about you, or that they are laughing about or whispering about you behind your back.
As a point of reference for the genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length in the Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7,500.
How many words does a novel have to have to be published? How long should your novel be to be published? There is no simple answer to the question. Most adult novels are at least 60,000 words. The average adult fiction novel runs from 75,000 to 100,000 words.