WORD COUNT LIMITS

You Need to Know About This Powerful Tool Right Now

Those instructive guidelines are useful and here to help you

Image created by the author in CANVA.

The Medium word counter sitting silently in the background, just waiting to be called upon:

1. Found in editing mode.
2. Highlight the area of text that you want to count.
3. Hey presto, your accurate up-to-date word count will be displayed in the top left of your screen.

What could be simpler?

Let’s talk some more about guidelines today, which everybody knows that, for The ShortForm publication’s guidelines, specifically makes a point that it has a restrictive word count of only one-hundred-fifty (150) words, and not a single extra word.

That’s the original beauty of this publication, designed for that short read for people who are short on time:

Owned by myself Jonathan Townend, RMN - Editor - Friend of Medium, with a great team of dedicated editors onboard (Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Dr. Preeti Singh, Yana Bostongirl, B.R. Shenoy, and Josh Bassett, volunteering their time to support every writer who enjoy writing with us.

But one of our biggest and ongoing irksome headaches is… those word counts.