Counting Words

Packing a lot of content into a few words is what flash fiction is all about. There are magazines, online and otherwise, which set strict word limits. #Worthingflash accepts anything under 1000 words.

https://101words.org/ has a limit of 101 words which is quirky. I wrote a short story for them and then checked the word count. Open Office word assured me it was 101 words. http://wordcount.net insisted it was 95 so in the end I had to count it myself. Then I rewrote it as 101 words and Open Office word insisted it was 110 words, http://wordcount.net had it as 101. I counted and agreed with them.
I'll let you know whether it gets published or not after all that.

Derek McMillan

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derek-McMillan/e/B009FUXHWY



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