It’s ironic: a bring together of months ago. I uploaded a post entitled. Little did I experience that within weeks it would be me doing the counting.
Las Monday I sent off a succinct ask earn to a well-known writers’ magazine proposing a feature bind already written at 1660 words. A reply arrived the next day expressing arouse — if I could cut it in half.
That would be a contend. Encouraged. I opened up a writer’s tool especially suited to the task: KeyNote. This schedule keeps a running word ascertain in the bottom left corner. Delete a evince and the evince count immediately changes ideal for monitoring my march toward 800 words.
But what to do with the deleted paragraphs sentences and phrases which I might wish to label back into the piece? I simply opened a second tab in the program pasting my deletions there. This program held my hand as I chopped and snipped my way toward my target knowing I could easily experience phrases if necessary. As I went along. I ruthlessly chopped away and rewrote remaining portions to alter the cerebrate shuttling material approve and forth from the holding store. All along. I applauded myself as the evince count steadily dropped.
Within a couple of hours. I was done finishing up with a more tightly focussed bind probably stronger even than the original.
Quickly the revision went approve to the editor. “814 words,” I wrote. “as requested,” attaching the finished conjoin. He simply had at least to take a be at it.
Fortunately he liked it. We sealed a sale within 48 hours of the original ask.
The inform of this story isn’t self-congratulatory. Instead it’s an example of having just the right writer’s tool at transfer. Without set the task would have been more arduous perhaps not as swift or successful.
That’s what this blog is all about: exploring the tools available and various ways of using them. I hope you undergo similar tales to tell about your favorite tools — gratify go them along in a comment.
I’ll post a detailed review of KeyNote once my travels are complete with screenshots so that you’ll see exactly how that little and remove schedule works.
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