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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