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Our Guinness World Record Attempt
Great news! We have been approved by Guinness World Records to go ahead with our Record attempt. We're ironing out the finer details, but we are incredibly excited about this great opportunity to literally write our way into history! Email your friends and invite them to be part of this attempt.

Selected Submissions
"Rodger Maverly has never really left Emporia. Never did he have a reason. Seems, though, that everyone he knows has found their way out." by Dinsky

"Charlie, chapped lips and loose teeth, got out of bed. He had big plans for the future, big plans indeed. Staring at his reflection, he couldn't help but smile. This ragged fellow before him, torn clothes, sunken eyes and hollowed cheeks would be gone soon." by bobbybluebabaloo

Link we Love
Wordscount will analyze up to 20 pages of your text to give you a great variety of useful and some not so useful statistics. As well as metrics such as total word count, number of sentences and syllables, it even gives you the percentage of demonstrative pronouns and a level of vagueness. The analysis also includes a readability index for your writing, links to an online glossary for each word appearing in the document and even a breakdown of the frequency of the use of each letter (Wordscount through The Writer's Technology Companion)

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