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walker206 · 24th April 2008, 05:46 PM

Okay. Hi all. First post here. I am just about to start querying agents for my new novel, and this word count thing is kind of frustrating. My novel has a good amount of dialogue, hence in Word using "word count" it comes to 93,000. But using the "250 method" it's 106,000. That's a big difference.

I have done a LOT of research on various forums concerning this issue, and there seems to be no consensus whatsoever. So, in my query letter, I'm just going to say that it's "106,000 words (using the '250 method')." I would, of course, prefer not to have to say the last part, but with such a large discrepancy between the two counts I feel this way they'll know what we're dealing with here.

What do you think?

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walker206 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: New Mexico Posts: 7	Re: Novel Word Count Okay. Hi all. First post here. I am just about to start querying agents for my new novel, and this word count thing is kind of frustrating. My novel has a good amount of dialogue, hence in Word using "word count" it comes to 93,000. But using the "250 method" it's 106,000. That's a big difference. I have done a LOT of research on various forums concerning this issue, and there seems to be no consensus whatsoever. So, in my query letter, I'm just going to say that it's "106,000 words (using the '250 method')." I would, of course, prefer not to have to say the last part, but with such a large discrepancy between the two counts I feel this way they'll know what we're dealing with here. What do you think?