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Hello, all!
Well, I've finished all major writing on my new manuscript, and now just have polishing left to do. Here's the thing: I came out at a little over 77,000 words. My first draft was about 70k, so in my respective drafts I fleshed out a good bit. I have heard a lot of chatter about 80,000-100,000 being the "mark", so I'm trying to figure out where this puts me. I feel like I have told my story, my conflicts are fleshed out, my characters convincing...in other words, I feel good about where it is. That said, is my word count going to get me "too short" rejections? I don't want to put words in for the sake of more words, but I also don't want to get the too short responses. I'd like to think if I have a good story that those 3,000 words won't kill me, but I wanted to ask for all of your wonderful expertise. Thanks in advance!
Well, I've finished all major writing on my new manuscript, and now just have polishing left to do. Here's the thing: I came out at a little over 77,000 words. My first draft was about 70k, so in my respective drafts I fleshed out a good bit. I have heard a lot of chatter about 80,000-100,000 being the "mark", so I'm trying to figure out where this puts me. I feel like I have told my story, my conflicts are fleshed out, my characters convincing...in other words, I feel good about where it is. That said, is my word count going to get me "too short" rejections? I don't want to put words in for the sake of more words, but I also don't want to get the too short responses. I'd like to think if I have a good story that those 3,000 words won't kill me, but I wanted to ask for all of your wonderful expertise. Thanks in advance!