It’s always good to know the number of words in a piece, but when you’re submitting a story for publication or writing micro-memoir, it’s critical.

This week in the Free Five-Day Writing Challenge, you’ll be given a maximum word count each day and asked to state the number of words in each assignment. Here’s a short video that shows you how to obtain the actual word count of any document in Microsoft Word and how to estimate the number of words in other stories.