What’s in a word count anyway?
I’m making an executive decision and declaring this week’s word count goal has been met!
I can’t prove it by what shows in my spreadsheet or in Scrivener’s word count. By that count I’ve only gotten 714 more words since last week. But I am certain that I delete at least as many as I wrote, since I’m scrapping a lot of repetitive stuff in the technical sections I am working on now. I’m not only plugging ahead, but rewriting as I go. So I suspect I wrote at least 1500 new words this week, but I have no way to prove it.
Thus: executive decree. I certainly made good progress anyway.
Here’s a link to the blog hop list for this Sunday’s check-in.
I write some short stories to a template. Scenes need to be 230 words long, give or take 5. I always overwrite and edit back. But when counting writing always round up. 230 words is a page and a page is 250 words. Works for me.
I’ll take your word for it that you wrote roughly 1500 words. I do that all the time.
If anyone should know, it’s you 🙂 It sounds like excellent progress – on the editing too. It’s always nice when we can shed the excess and really hone things down. Good luck for the coming week.
Thanks everybody. ROW80 is definitely helping. I’m getting much more done than I have in some months.