word count

Five Tips for Increasing your NaNo Word Count

October 11, 2010

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Writers everywhere are stretching fingers and sharpening pencils, saying farewell to loved ones and clearing schedules to accommodate large blocks of writing time. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to pen 50,000 words within the month of November. Your mission is to get to that word count. There are no rules [...]

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Does Size Matter?

December 3, 2009

Submissions are going very well so far! I’ve received more than a handful of manuscripts, from authors representing four countries and five genres, and more are trickling in every day. The question I’m asked the most about Dragon Moon Press’s open submissions is how firm the word-count guidelines are. “My book is shorter than 80,000. [...]

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Word Count and Page Count

March 25, 2009

In standard submission format, what is the usual difference in length of a book in manuscript to printed copy? If I have a hundred pages in Microsoft Word, is it really going to be a hundred pages in print? It’s impossible to say, without actually seeing your layout, what your actual printed-book page count is [...]

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