Don't. Do. It. Slush pile readers, editors, and agents aren't stupid. Soon as you send that Word document off to us with 1700 words stapled to your e-mail, and we realize the story seems longer, we're reviewing your word count only to discover it's 3,000 words longer than what your e-mail dictated (or perhaps 10,000 words longer if it's a novel and not a short story).
We're not stupid. Don't insult us.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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3 comments:
SO true. Lol, I'm an editor on my school's newspapers and we're always getting articles that have been triple-spaced, had their margins messed with, etc to seem like a bigger word count. Come on. :P
This is true. Obviously a book that is 500 pages is not going to be 80,000 words.
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