Don’t run away upon the first sight of a 50,000 word minimum, such as what we require here at REUTS. While the word count your word processor provides you with is correct, it’s not exactly what most publishers are looking for– including us. In essence, a publisher is looking for how long a book would end up being in publication, and with that reason in mind, there’s an easy way to calculate this word count.
Take your number of pages, and multiply it by 250!
100 page? You now have 25,000 words. Approximately.
For the most part, an exact word count makes no difference to us. But do remember to round your count to the nearest hundred!
