Depending on how long your work is, you story will be considered be a different name. This is not a definitive list, different sources will move the word count here and there. This is just a way to classify length, and you can say short story or novel to make it easier, but in case you're wondering, here is the list:
Drabble: A drabble is around 100 words. But you can tell a story for less. There is a story about Hemmingway who won a bet in a bar when he was challenged to write a story in six words (This is known now as a six-word story). He wrote "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." That sentence said more than some novels do. Drabbles are good if you have an idea you want to get out but don't have the environment or characters to expand on it. This length is good for a quick post on steemit if you have an idea but can't take it further.
Flash Fiction: This is what I write a lot of on steemit. It is considered flash if it is under a 1,000 words but that is a good length for a social media site. There are other terms like dribble for 50 and sudden fiction for 750, but I like flash as an umbrella term. You can get out an idea, a character or two, and even explore a section of a world in that length. You don't want to flesh out too much in that small space but for a quick tale or an interesting idea, this is a good length.
Short Story: This is the normal length that many people are familiar with. A story that is less than 7,500 is considered a short. Shorts are long enough to let you explore a world and a character but short enough that the writer must keep it clean. Short stories can be as deep as a novel and Alice Munroe, who won the nobel prize for writing, exclusively wrote shorts. This is also a good length for people writing posts on this site as it gives them the space to tell a great story and is still digestable.
Novelette: This is another term term that you don't hear often. People usually just use novella but anything that is 7,500 to 17,500 is technically a novelette. For this length as long as novella, I find they just happen naturally when you are telling a story. Sometimes a character or an event needs more room and yo find yourself here. I think you should let the story be whatever length it is going to be and if that happens to be a novelette, then so be it.
Novella: Anything that is 17,500 to 40,000 is a novella. If you are trying to publish your work, it might be in your interest to make it a novel but if the story only needs so many words, then for quality, it is better to make it a novella. This, as with novelette, is an odd length for a steemit post but could be broken into pieces.
Novel: The standard measure of a story. A novel has to be over 40,000 words. That is the cut-off. This is for a full exploration of characters, worlds and events. If you are going to post a novel into your steemit account, you should do so with chapters or pieces. 
This informative post contain a very basic information about different writing formats of story.
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The meaning of a story
I really see this list as being most helpful, it resumes exactly what needs to be known when writing, especially here. Thanks!
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It's not like everybody writes a story. I am very careful of foreigners and foreigners who I have read and read. The person who turns it can write the story from the beginning. Thank you for the information.
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This is quite interesting i only heard of like three of these types I never knew there were more and that there were classification on word count as well good read.
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Educative. I did not know the other types of writing, except for short story and Novel. I didn't know there were so many. I consider myself a Flash writer too. Like you said, it's perfect for Steemit. You don't want to make your pot way too long that they require hours of reading. You will lose your followers.
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It's nice to know that stories can be classified into different type of categories just based on word count.
I struggle so much just to get started writing fiction or even non-fiction but I think the trick here is to write as short as possible.
Then as I get more confident where I want to extend the story then it will go into these phases that are identified here.
From drabble to flash to short story to novelette to novella and finally a novel.
Nice to know what the roadmap is here in writing.
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Thanks for the breakdown. I never knew the full scope. It would be interesting to see the response of a novel posted on steemit. lol.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm in the process of writing a short story, but due to word and page count it's hard figure out which format it's going to be.
As someone who writes stories as a hobby, this is definitely something I find useful. Thanks for the info.
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The information you share is very good for people who are beginning to write basic texts. I had the doubt if the extension of a text defines the gender. Thank you.
I love drabbles, they show that there is so much to be said with little words. In spanish we call them "microstories", and I find it a challenge to write them. What do you think about the Hemmingway story? I've heard it's wrongly attributed to him.
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I just started writing. Now I understand some of them are drabbles and the others are short stories. I did not have a clue on Novelette and Novella.
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I've been started my writing carier with poem in 8th grade, then I was started to writing short story then novel till the date. It was fun but now I can't write a short story.
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Thank you! I typically write at the novella length (about the 20k word range) - I've done a novel, but I don't enjoy the length in my style of writing - it almost seems forced. Novellas allow me to "get in and get out" and make it short and sweet, but still with enough substance to have a good story out of it. But again, it's hard to find someone willing to publish it for me. (But for Steemit, it might be ideal.)
I've become more familiar with "flash fiction" (I like that term) since joining Steemit, and even came in 3rd place in a recent contest to do a story of only 199 words! Still, I prefer the novella. :-)
Thanks for the article, knowing the terms is very useful!
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