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.
novella between 17500 and 40000 words novel anything over 40000 words however 40000 words is actually pretty short for a novel generally 50000 would be considered the minimum word count and ideally a novel should be over 70000 words on the upper end a novel over 110000 words is considered an epic that s the level where publishers are likely to suggest dividing a story into multiple volumes