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Use the return key more often. This may be the easiest thing you can do to make your copy more readable. Tweak it. Look for ways to shorten your paragraphs by cutting sentences, phrases and words. Break it up with bullets.

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Doable, right? If you're thinking bigger and wondering, for example, how many pages is 50,000 words, simply divide your target word count (50,000) by 500 (since that's the average words per page). Your answer here is 100 pages.

Do the easy cuts first: Empty words, empty dialogue, unnecessary tagscut all the words that commonly bloat a novel first. It is often surprising how many only just and of the a novel has. Cut back to front: If you're cutting words-per-page, start on the last page and work your way back.

Tip 1! Add Exact and Specific Actions. This may sound counterproductive. Tip 2! Use Gerunds. When you use the ing form of verbs, you can eliminate one or two other words. Tip 3! Use Abbreviations. Tip 4! Remove that Tip 5! Remove the Tip 6! Hyphenate. Tip 7! Pluralize. Tip 8! Remove Filler Words.

Editing is the process of rereading your first draft to look for places that need revision and making changes as needed. Whether you're writing a book, an essay, a short story, or an article for submission to a scholarly journal, your manuscript will need to undergo some revision before you send it to a publisher.

Writer's Digest recommends 80,000 to 89,999 words as a 100% safe range for literary, mainstream, women's, romance, mystery, suspense, thriller and horror. That's approximately 300 pages of double-spaced type.