RE: Aspiring and experienced Writers' discussion thread
September 3, 2015 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2015 at 1:14 am by Alex K.)
(September 2, 2015 at 7:47 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(September 2, 2015 at 7:27 pm)Alex K Wrote: Exactly! I did that all the time with my last nonfiction thing. I had to shorten ithe almost finished manuscript by 50% because it had to be a short crash course format limited to 100k characters, and since it is a terribly painful process, I was always like, ok, these paragraphs here go in the next book! Whether it ever really does happen is not clear, but simply deleting two hours of hard work? I don't think so!
How do you even do that—count 100k characters? Microsoft Word doesn't do that. I guess you just see how many words fit on a page and multiply it by an average of 5 characters per word.
The publisher hath provided a template with a character counting button. But I believe Word has it integrated with the word counting feature?...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
