nothing to gain by not rounding things properly yourself. Your payments will even out in the long run. Be sure to insert a comma in the proper place in your word count, if necessary. The comma is used as a separator between the hundreds and the thousands places in a number. Thus nine hundred is written "900," but nineteen hundred is written "1,900." You do not calculate the wordage of your story by counting actual words. Figure out the maximum number of characters per line in your manuscript, divide this number by six, and then multiply by the total number of lines in your story. This gives you the word count. Round from there. Editors, you see, are not interested in how many actual words there are in your manuscript. They are interested in how much space it will take up in a magazine or book, and this method gives them a more accurate estimate of that than the actual number of words would. It is not necessary to place your Social Security number anywhere on your manuscript. If the publisher wants to know it, then you will be asked for it after your story is accepted. Otherwise, it's extraneous information. Place the title of your story about halfway down the first page of your manuscript. Not a quarter of the way, not a third of the way, but halfway. The editor needs all that empty space for writing love notes to the typesetter. Your title should be centered between the margins. It is probably best to type your title in capital letters, and you may put it in bold if you wish.