What an Edit!

March 18, 2008 in General Topics

My latest tale was just wrapped up. To summarize the final version:

  • Final draft was the fifth revision.
  • Went from 5750 to 4000 words.
  • That was nuts. Don’t let anyone ever tell you I don’t work hard to reach that magic number. And 4000 does indeed seem to be a magic number when it comes to story length. Quite a few great markets cut off subs of higher word counts. Just an FYI, in case you hadn’t noticed that little caveat.