Now 2100 character minimum and error code comes up if you are under that number

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I just had a different experience at Helium from last week. Minimum is now 350 words/21000 characters. I found a topic I liked and wrote. The topic was "Can being fat actually be good for your health?" I wrote about the time my Dad accidently shot himself at work and being fat saved him. Anyway, I hit submit and it came up "Error code 1, you must fix your error, you have 1926 characters, 2100 characters are required." So I added a couple more sentenses, Same thing only now 2063, added some more, then 2091. By now, I'm really running out of things to add. So I reword and add punctuation. Finally, it let the article go, I don't know if I had exactly the amount I needed or went over or a little under, but was that tedious! They are going to go to 400 words soon and I'm not sure how I will expand some of the articles I wrote. I'm up to 43 articles and halfway to my first payout. Has anyone else tried to write an article since this new error code and the characters are counted? Have you had problems or do you just naturally write long articles? I wish the word counts were on the side as you write or in a window somewhere because you don't know how many words you have until the error code comes up. Even if I write a long article, I won't know if it meets the 400 later on. What do you think?