National Graphic Novel Writing Month Day 29: It’s NOT A Novel, by Keith R.A. DeCandido
My biggest problem with the term “graphic novel” is that it’s wrong. Graphic, yes. Novel, not so much. A novel is generally defined as a work of prose that is 50,000 words or more, and most novels are much more than that. Yet the average item that is referred to as a “graphic novel” rarely…