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AverageGuy:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on March 07, 2008, 05:00:39 PM ---I was told that editors, agents etc used the official microsoft word count as standard. 

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Some accept it.  But I don't know that it's standard at this point.  Check the submissions guidelines.

ETA: Looking at the link, it asks for an "approximate word count."  Normally that refers to the 250 words/page estimate with standard manuscript format.  If you use MSWord or another word counter, you might want to indicate that.

KevinEvans:
Well,
we got down to 7955 (Word processing program counter) or 7610 (Character count divided by 6) We did a lot of "he had" to he'd and sub plots died like flies. The real method was to impose a draconian does this word ,phrase, subplot advance the story? the revised story runs cleaner and faster, but we lost stuff we really liked along the way. the first contest is over in May, and the deadline for the second is in June. We will try to find a way to put the stories where you can see them after the results are in.
Regards,
Kevin and Karen

meg_evonne:
Congrats, I will look forward to reading it!  Out of curiosity, did you feel the final result was better at the shorter amount? 

KevinEvans:
It is crisper and moves faster, but we had to lose some compelling description in the process. If we bounce at the 8,000 contest we can fallback to the 15,000 word contest that has a deadline a month after the first contest results are announced. Then we can add some things back in.
In related news I sent in my PM for the writing group, and there We will be able to post some of our works in process.
Regards,
Kevin



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--- Quote from: meg_evonne on March 10, 2008, 04:33:01 PM ---Congrats, I will look forward to reading it!  Out of curiosity, did you feel the final result was better at the shorter amount? 



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