Excuse me, are 20,000-30,000 novels long or medium-length? How is it defined? Where did some online writers such as Annie Baby first publish their articles?

It is a novel that focuses on creating characters and reflects social life through the narrative of stories and the description of the environment.

Novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and short stories by length.

Short stories and short stories are characterized by "short". Short stories are generally thousands of words, with small capacity, simple plot and few characters. Mao Dun said in Talking about Short Stories: "Generally speaking, short stories only capture a fragment or a section of life to show the meaning of life. It often has only one protagonist and one clue, and often only writes about what happened in a few hours or days, but it should remind readers of more future things. " For example, "The Gift of the Magi" is a life segment in which lovers give gifts to each other at Christmas, showing the greatness and sacredness of "love". Some short stories connect a person's life or some life fragments in his life to form a story. Zheng Zhenduo said: "The short story is really a short and perfect landscape painting, which cannot be added or shrunk. It is also like potted pine trees in Gu Zhuo. Although short and full of spirit, it must not and need not be increased in any way. " Quoted from Xue Hai, Peng Fei, and Zheng Zhenduo's "The Driver of Human Arts".

Short stories are short stories. Generally, it ranges from a few hundred words to one or two thousand words, but it is just a scan of one or two characters and instant scenes. For example, Casualties of Normandy is about Norman Halwei Captain's brave decision-making, calm command and selfless rescue in the face of death, which made him a great hero. Mao Dun summed up the short stories like this: "First, the stories of short stories are extremely simple, and some even have no stories, only the action fragments of characters on specific occasions. Second, it is such a' lens' that outlines the character's style and his spiritual world. " Quoted from The Harvest of Short Stories and Several Problems in Their Creation and Mao Dun's Collection of Literary Criticism.

Contrary to short stories, novels are long in length, large in capacity and rich in characters. It can represent the social outlook of a certain historical period, and can also describe various types of characters and complex storylines. For example, "Water Margin" reflects the social features of the late Northern Song Dynasty when officials forced the people to revolt and peasants exposed their posts, and depicts different images of many main figures. Gary, a boy, is a so-called "contemporary Xu Wenchang prankster". He vowed to be famous and become a "celebrity" on campus. His just and healthy desire is often expressed through strange and inexplicable actions. In order to be famous, he made a lot of jokes, but when he didn't want to be famous but was full of just impulses, he really became famous and became a hero fighting gangsters overnight, which was favored by female students.

A novella is between a long story and a short story.