I took two pictures, one the instant before publishing my story, and one right after...
In the first one the words count is 9955 (exactly as Word counted) and in the second is 10204. So my story will be rejected and that sucks because the number of words is less than 10K.
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your assumption that your story will be automatically rejected is incorrect.
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your assumption that your story will be automatically rejected is incorrect.
You must admit it's a reasonable assumption though, since those are the rules. Or are they more like guidelines? 😉
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The 10k limit is a soft rule at moderator discretion. If it's a bit over, fine. If it's a lot over, maybe not.
Mainly, it's there to help keep the site speed up. Loading tens of thousand word stories takes an appreciable amount of time when scaled up to a large user base, so limiting the amount downloaded in each request helps the servers, keeps the site snappy, and allows those on lower bandwidth connections to enjoy the stories without having to wait a while for content to appear.
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Good to know, that doesn't take away the frustration of a writer who works hard to stay within the limit and then, for some misterious glitch, there are 300 more words!
BTW, my story is online, thank you! 😘
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YOU CAN'T LET ANYONE COME IN BETWEEN YOU AND THE THINGS YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT IN THIS LIFE, OR IT AIN'T WORTH LIVING.
Yep. Frustrating.
Counting words is one of those things that's inherently easy for humans to consider and understand, but difficult for computers to perform accurately in a similar manner. Even Word has a set of rules and gets it "wrong".
1. Hyphenated words sometimes count as two or more.
2. Two words separated by a non-breaking space count as one word.
3. Using a dash with space around it - instead of an em-dash - may count as an extra word.
4. Separators like ~oOo~ are considered a word.
5. They can consider "invisible" web markup as words, so large chunks of whitespace or formatting like bold, italic, etc can bump the word count significantly.
And so on...
Over one million views on my stories can't be wrong, so please dive in and browse my 148 stories:
* 32 Editor's Picks, 84 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 12 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
And remember, the "official" word count is the one displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of the Lush edit window, not the one that appears when you publish the story. That number somehow magically takes into account some or all of the extra words involved in the final story, i.e. title, one-liner, tags...
