Keeping Count ~ Tricks for Controlling Word Count

Word Count - My biggest Nightmare. It’s much easier for me to go long than it is short. Once I started writing full length novels, it became pathetically easy to run too long. In the past two years, the shortest story I'd been able to write was just short of 4000 words. (I was aiming for 2000.) 3 stories I originally planned for 20k (20,000 words) went to 40k. I have the detailed