Magazines threaten to reject submissions outright if writers have not adhered to the specified word limit. However, for writers, stringent constraints in wordage are a constant worry. Without being allowed any latitude in the inches, how will you be able to express yourself freely and exactly as you want? Will you be able to do justice to your story? Won't all the chopping and changing morph the very essence of the prose?
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1955 words
Nonfiction
US publication
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Words from the Wise
"This is an interesting article and I do like it. Works for me! I also didn't know that trick about using Word to insert the word count automatically!"
Moira Allen
Publisher
Writing World
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