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.
the number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre a young adult novel will run between 20000 and 40000 words that would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing a mass market western mystery or sf novel used to run to 60000 70000 words