Word Count

Word counts baffle me.  I know I know - book formats change, but word count is forever - until the next edition comes out.  However,  I have never found this to be a very good gauge of how much progress I've gotten accomplished.  I could write 12,000 words of drivel.  I'd much rather have one page of something worth keeping...until the rewrites.

I must admit to never being a numbers person.  Math is my nemesis.  Numbers, like another well know count, will suck the lifeblood right out of you.

When working on a project it's best to keep the numbers out of it.  A novel can be as long or as short as you want.  That's why they invented the novella and the short story.  even a dirty limerick, if well written, is better than some tomes I've read. 

Make the words count, don't count the words.

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