
Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
Writing Excuses
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How to Be Brief in Short Fiction
How can we make sure that our story is, is having maximum impact for the words that we are using? Well, when you're looking at short fiction, there's a couple of ways to control, control your story length. Every character in scenic location you add adds roughly,. and this is really rough rule of thumb adding roughly 500,000 words to your word count for that short story or scene. So one thing you can do when you are coming up with your concept is to make sure that your characters are doing double duty.
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