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Q&A Converting Word pages to book pages, for novels?

The standard way of calculating word count, aside from simply using the "word count" feature of your word processor, is to format your document in standard submission format and then multiply the n...

posted 12y ago by JSBձոգչ‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:36:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar JSBձոգչ‭ · 2019-12-08T02:36:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
The standard way of calculating word count, aside from simply using the "word count" feature of your word processor, is to format your document in [standard submission format](http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html) and then multiply the number of pages by 250. This is the technique that was used back in the days before computers could instantaneously count the number of words in a document. It also has the incidental advantage of accounting for the actual length of your paragraphs on the page, so that long passages of dialogue (which consist of lots of short paragraphs) or lists are correctly adjusted for.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-12-11T16:00:46Z (almost 12 years ago)
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