: Re: How can I expand my story to meet a minimum word count? I'm writing a sinister story for school and it has to be 500-1000 words. But I only have 414 words and I don't know what else to

@Kaufman555

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I note a number of terse forms and contractions. For example:

Last couple of months I’ve been suffering in silence.

This could be rewritten as:

During the course of the last couple of months I have been suffering in silence.

and

Over days I decided to think about it ...

could be written as:

Over a period of many days, I decided to think about it ...

Similar expansions may gain you quite a few words without any essential change in the meaning or style.
Also, the line:

know one thing he will not leave without me.

is not as clear as it might be. What does it mean that "he will not leave"? This like could be expanded nd clarified a bit.
The connection of this like with the quote about being scared could be clarified. What exactly is the narrator scared of? She doers not say.

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