Too many words
The last time I touched my android space opera story, it was 3900 words, and I had submitted it to Strange Horizons without having changed it from the the state it was in this spring when I first sent it out. My planned next step after it was rejected, (and it was) was to fix some issues that came up in the latest round of critiques, and submit it to another market. Unfortunately, the market I want to send it to next has a hard limit of 4000 words, and the last revision pass sent the story somewhere north of 4150.
So I need to cut some, which is actually possibly a blessing; I think this is a good opportunity to tighten up the story a bit. I wonder if I could get a beta reader to volunteer to look at it with an eye toward where it could stand to be trimmed?
So I need to cut some, which is actually possibly a blessing; I think this is a good opportunity to tighten up the story a bit. I wonder if I could get a beta reader to volunteer to look at it with an eye toward where it could stand to be trimmed?