1. How is the flow of the story of a novel different from a short story? Story is that short stories are short and novels are long. Short stories can be 1,000 to 20,000 words. More average is 3,000 to 5,000 words. A novel can be anywhere from 60,000 to over 120,000. Certainly there are other reasons why novels, along with memoirs (putative autobiographies, in which their authors often employ the conventions of the novel), are the dominant prose forms on offer in bookstores, but if more short story collections were published by corporate publishing houses, it seems a reasonable assumption that their sales and marketing departments would then necessarily be tasked with promoting them with the same publicity muscle and marketing ingenuity used to promote long-form fiction titles. 2. What is the genre of your novel? Give reasons A genre of The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe is Lost World, Lost World is is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown world out of time, place, or both. For example Arthur Gordon Pym was born on the island of Nantucket, famous for its fishing harbor and whaling. His best friend, Augustus Barnard, is the son of the captain of a whaling ship.