So much headdesking. I'm an idiot, apparently.

[agilebrit]

So, I was poking through my Cow Story tag and realized, huh, when I posted it for the Usual suspects, it was over 9,000 words long. According to my spreadsheet and the first page, it's 6700 words long.

How and when did I whack 3000 words out of it?

So I did the word count thing on the doc again.

It's actually 9700 words long.

Gee. I wonder if that's why it got rejected so many times. I really wish someone had dropped me a note saying "Hey, you realize this thing is 3000 words longer than you think it is?"

I feel like an idiot.

Comments

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

No harm done, apparently :) congratulations on the sale! I'm sure it happens to everyone at some point.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It'll be coming out soon, too. Like, they want it for the April issue. So now I'm flailing even harder.