How long should my submission be?
We recommend your submission is at least 500 words and 5,000 words at the most.
If the text is less than 500 words, it's difficult to write a critique long enough to earn a credit — and if the story is very long, critiquing it will be very time-consuming and you are likely to get fewer critiques.
Your first story, in the newbie queue, can be no longer than 4,000 words. Other public queues have a limit of 8,000 words. Private queues have no word limit per submission.
The credit cost is always the same, regardless of the length of the submission.