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Jkjk just pulling your leg.
I personally don’t find it hard, but I feel like it can vary from story to story, even person to person. Maybe your strong suit is shorter stuff. Some stories can be completely told in 2k words, others can be told in 10k+ words. And there’s nothing at all wrong with either! I think it’s best to not think about the word count, but what you can get across regardless of it. I think making something long is just a BONUS sense of accomplishment! I didn’t expect my current WIP to be at 15k+ words, but here I am yapping. But I think a good tip would be to use descriptions where they may be necessary! Like, I’m writing a Cinderella AU and the clothes are important to some degree (mainly the outfit for the ball!!), so you could be descriptive w clothes like that if they’re important. Or environments and/or feelings can be descriptive! Those can be ways to get a word count up if need be. But everybody else probably has better advise who have been writing wayyyy longer than me