The 2026 [lit] 750 Word Project Support Thread

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They don't, no. Here's one I did last year; you can see that the displayed word count is 847 because there's a foreword explaining where the story came from.

And that gives you a little leeway with varying word counts. Try for exactly 750 by whatever count you have. As long as you have a note at the beginning, no one will notice if your count varies by a word or two.