word limits and revision
- From: Lucy Kemnitzer <ritaxis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:43:59 -0700
There are markets for shorts that really truly don't want anything
over 4K words. This is not a relative limit, but a hard limit. I
have shorts which are under 5K words. I'm thinking about taking the
big pruning shears to them, but they're stories I like as they are and
I wonder if that kind of treatment will hurt them. But currently
they're not finding a home, which hurts them more, right?
Would you cut nearly 20% of a story to fit into a word limit?
Lucy Kemnitzer
still
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