The Climb to Novelization

So I was doing some research and found a general guide for how many words a novel should be.  This is the general consensus:

Flash Story: Under ~1,000 words

Short Story: 1,000–7,500 words

Novelette: 7,500–17,500 words

Novella: 17,500–40,000 words

Novel: Over 40,000 words

Now, keeping in mind a standard rule, which states that any novel under 80,000 and above 110,000 words is probably getting kicked back, then we can easily assume that my goal is...  between 80-110K words.

Judging by the above info, my "novel" is currently still in Short Story land.  In other words, I have a lot of writing to do.

Let's just say that I'm off by about 76,000-ish words...

Back to work then...

Joe