Word Count Blues: Novel Manuscript Trimming
Putting Your Manuscript on a Diet I’ve got the…I’ve got the…I’ve got the word count blues. Had ‘em for a while. I remember the day I walked up into the sky for twenty minutes. (The cable cars were in the barn; the Powell Street line in the throes of renovation.) It was Presidents’ Day weekend 2011 at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and I was a starry-eyed, breathless (from my uphill hike, admittedly) attendee at the San Francisco Writers Conference. By…