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Chaos Week is a beast with a long tail.
Since last update:
Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~2500 words across three scenes, and loads of editing. 12224 words, up about 3000 from last count. I now have a joke about a Hitachi wand in my work.
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Chaos Week is a beast with a long tail.
Since last update:
Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~2500 words across three scenes, and loads of editing. 12224 words, up about 3000 from last count. I now have a joke about a Hitachi wand in my work.
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A week+ of chaos that hasn't been unproductive, but it's been a minute since I updated my #wordcount.
Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: Chapter 1 is basically complete, 12 Scenes and 9179 words, 3692 since last update.
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A week+ of chaos that hasn't been unproductive, but it's been a minute since I updated my #wordcount.
Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: Chapter 1 is basically complete, 12 Scenes and 9179 words, 3692 since last update.
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I just spent four hours writing and put down almost 3800 words. Man, I'd almost forgotten how AWESOME that feels!
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I just spent four hours writing and put down almost 3800 words. Man, I'd almost forgotten how AWESOME that feels!
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~1325 words today, 1213 in B1S8, plus small edits elsewhere, 5487 total.
5 Years Ago. The Clocktower is empty when Kara arrives, Huntress is on patrol, and avoidance is in-frame. They discuss old times and agree get some pizza.
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~1325 words today, 1213 in B1S8, plus small edits elsewhere, 5487 total.
5 Years Ago. The Clocktower is empty when Kara arrives, Huntress is on patrol, and avoidance is in-frame. They discuss old times and agree get some pizza.
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~1750 words today, 4161 total. 1 complete scene plus +~600 in edits across previous six scenes.
A meeting at the Clocktower. Booster has the moral high ground. Everyone's complicit one way or the other, eventually.
Additionally: Rough dialogue for two future scenes ~975 words.
Author status: Insomnia means no sleep for 41 hours but across all output types I track I have ~2750 words today, the most in exactly one ever. A mixed curse.
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~1750 words today, 4161 total. 1 complete scene plus +~600 in edits across previous six scenes.
A meeting at the Clocktower. Booster has the moral high ground. Everyone's complicit one way or the other, eventually.
Additionally: Rough dialogue for two future scenes ~975 words.
Author status: Insomnia means no sleep for 41 hours but across all output types I track I have ~2750 words today, the most in exactly one ever. A mixed curse.
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~900 words today, 2930 total.
Oracle reins in Booster with tea. Lexi and Kara continue their first date. DC's handling of Kara's continuity gets roasted, then shrugged at. Minor editing.
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Lexi Luthor & Power Girl: ~900 words today, 2930 total.
Oracle reins in Booster with tea. Lexi and Kara continue their first date. DC's handling of Kara's continuity gets roasted, then shrugged at. Minor editing.
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📚 Behold! An "intrepid" writer attempts to scale the monumental peak of word count with a "short" history that's anything but. 💡 Spoiler alert: it's more about self-promotion than Cerro Torre's actual controversy. 🌄 #MountaineeringMarketing
https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/a-short-history-of-cerro-torre/ #intrepidwriter #wordcount #selfpromotion #CerroTorre #MountaineeringMarketing #HackerNews #ngated -
📚 Behold! An "intrepid" writer attempts to scale the monumental peak of word count with a "short" history that's anything but. 💡 Spoiler alert: it's more about self-promotion than Cerro Torre's actual controversy. 🌄 #MountaineeringMarketing
https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/a-short-history-of-cerro-torre/ #intrepidwriter #wordcount #selfpromotion #CerroTorre #MountaineeringMarketing #HackerNews #ngated -
DAYLOG 4JUN26
Entropy reduction today at 1262. For May it was 9058. #writing #wordcount
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DAYLOG 4JUN26
Entropy reduction today at 1262. For May it was 9058. #writing #wordcount
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Writing Sometimes Philosophical @writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com@writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com ·How many words does an average novel have?
From Google AI:
The average word count for a standard adult novel is generally between 70,000 and 100,000 words. While 40,000 words is considered the minimum threshold, most fiction publishers look for manuscripts in the 80k–100k range, with 90,000 words often cited as the “sweet spot” for debut authors. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Word Counts by Genre (Adult Fiction)
- Literary/Contemporary Fiction: 80,000–100,000 words.
- Fantasy & Sci-Fi: 90,000–120,000 words.
- Thriller & Mystery: 70,000–90,000 words.
- Romance: 50,000–100,000 words.
- Historical Fiction: 90,000–110,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Considerations
- YA Fiction: Generally lower, aiming for 50,000–70,000 words.
- Debut Authors: It is crucial for new authors to stick closer to these guidelines. Over 110,000–120,000 words can be considered too long, signaling a need for heavy editing to agents and publishers.
- Novellas: These typically fall between 17,500 and 40,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
These guidelines are based on industry standards, ensuring the story is well-developed but not excessively long.
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Writing Sometimes Philosophical @writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com@writingsometimesphilosophical.wordpress.com ·How many words does an average novel have?
From Google AI:
The average word count for a standard adult novel is generally between 70,000 and 100,000 words. While 40,000 words is considered the minimum threshold, most fiction publishers look for manuscripts in the 80k–100k range, with 90,000 words often cited as the “sweet spot” for debut authors. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Word Counts by Genre (Adult Fiction)
- Literary/Contemporary Fiction: 80,000–100,000 words.
- Fantasy & Sci-Fi: 90,000–120,000 words.
- Thriller & Mystery: 70,000–90,000 words.
- Romance: 50,000–100,000 words.
- Historical Fiction: 90,000–110,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Considerations
- YA Fiction: Generally lower, aiming for 50,000–70,000 words.
- Debut Authors: It is crucial for new authors to stick closer to these guidelines. Over 110,000–120,000 words can be considered too long, signaling a need for heavy editing to agents and publishers.
- Novellas: These typically fall between 17,500 and 40,000 words. [1, 2, 3, 4]
These guidelines are based on industry standards, ensuring the story is well-developed but not excessively long.
#Fiction #novel #wordCount #Writing -
@neve
How did the last two months go in terms of my word count or publishing goals?I'm getting more mentally organized and thinking about what I want to get down on paper, but actual words have been slow.
I've gotten the routine of making nut milk every 3-4 days down, and I finally got the heat pump dryer my hubby wanted working. It has *TWO* lint filters. WHO KNEW?? And I need a tiny vacuum to get them clean.
#Writephant #Writersofmastodon #mentalhealth #wordcount #writingcommunity
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@neve
How did the last two months go in terms of my word count or publishing goals?I'm getting more mentally organized and thinking about what I want to get down on paper, but actual words have been slow.
I've gotten the routine of making nut milk every 3-4 days down, and I finally got the heat pump dryer my hubby wanted working. It has *TWO* lint filters. WHO KNEW?? And I need a tiny vacuum to get them clean.
#Writephant #Writersofmastodon #mentalhealth #wordcount #writingcommunity
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#writing For my current serial I'm doing its has portions laid out as a script and portions laid out as prose. Curious about how you all would handle the #wordcount ?
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#writing For my current serial I'm doing its has portions laid out as a script and portions laid out as prose. Curious about how you all would handle the #wordcount ?
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I see so much negatively in the book world on social media, from readers, writers, editors, artists & more. It can feel demoralizing. As a writer, just write a story that feels right. If you have a publisher insisting on so many words, okay, but sticking with a certain word count can bloat a book. #books #writer #wordcount
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I see so much negatively in the book world on social media, from readers, writers, editors, artists & more. It can feel demoralizing. As a writer, just write a story that feels right. If you have a publisher insisting on so many words, okay, but sticking with a certain word count can bloat a book. #books #writer #wordcount
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30.5k words. I learned more things about football. People keep trying to explain to the protagonist that he doesn't have to be responsible for everything, but he doesn't have a frame of reference to grasp that. Not that I know what that's like or anything...
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30.5k words. I learned more things about football. People keep trying to explain to the protagonist that he doesn't have to be responsible for everything, but he doesn't have a frame of reference to grasp that. Not that I know what that's like or anything...
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Trenches, back into the...
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Trenches, back into the...
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I barely slept last night. But I am over 20k words on the urban fantasy football story. #WordCount
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I barely slept last night. But I am over 20k words on the urban fantasy football story. #WordCount
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I have averaged around 1666 words every day since Dec 12 on the urban fantasy football story. Which I think means I need 52 more days to get to 100k, which is probably the length to aim for. If my math is right. #writing #WordCount
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I have averaged around 1666 words every day since Dec 12 on the urban fantasy football story. Which I think means I need 52 more days to get to 100k, which is probably the length to aim for. If my math is right. #writing #WordCount
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I have lost all patience with "content creators". If you are going to promote a topic then stick to it. I don't need to know the back story of when you bought your first computer when I've been promised information about an app replacement. Headlines should be a summary of an article's content not just a way to get people to click.
If you write recipes, just give me the recipe. I don't need the 3 page description of you going shopping for the ingredients or the litany of tweaks made across generations as a recipe was handed down.
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Write Like An Auctioneer
There's a cadence to an auctioneer's sing-song voice, the way that (usually) he calls out the prices, tries to entice the bid to go higher (do I hear four forty? how about four fifty? Okay, now four sixy....) out of an audience that could be fairly receptive to the item being offered or not. I've seen it at the livestock auctions I used to attend. Som
https://kitauthor.com/write-like-an-auctioneer/
#AuthorLife #ADHD #cPTSD #focus #WordCount #writing #WritingGoals -
Write Like An Auctioneer
There's a cadence to an auctioneer's sing-song voice, the way that (usually) he calls out the prices, tries to entice the bid to go higher (do I hear four forty? how about four fifty? Okay, now four sixy....) out of an audience that could be fairly receptive to the item being offered or not. I've seen it at the livestock auctions I used to attend. Som
https://kitauthor.com/write-like-an-auctioneer/
#AuthorLife #ADHD #cPTSD #focus #WordCount #writing #WritingGoals -
I solved my word-count problem. I am pleased to announce that this article is having a baby…
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Our word count defaulted to text only, excluding footnotes, so it’s time to get out the scissors and snip snip snip
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Worked on a GitHub style heatmap calendar for my Hugo blog! Excited to share how I did it soon. 😇
#heatmap #calendar #github #githubcontributions #blogplugin #hugocms #hugoblog #hugo #blogging #blog #WebDev #wordcount
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Making the word count; the challenge of writing for competitions
Currently, as I am working on my latest story and trying hard to make the word count, I thought it was the perfect time to reflect on a couple of the challenges of writing for competitions.
#writing #shortstories #writingprocess #editing #wordcount #creativewriting #WritingWorkshop #writingtips #writingtipsfromwriters
https://narrativecuriosity.co/making-the-word-count-the-challenge-of-writing-for-competitions/
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My next work, 1st draft. 27.9k words so far.
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My next work, 1st draft. 27.9k words so far.
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
As great minds can express much in a few words, so small minds have the contrary talent of talking a great deal without saying anything at all.
[Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits, au contraire, ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶142 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blather #chatter #communication #eloquence #information #loquaciousness #speechcontent #talk #talkativeness #talking #terseness #wordcount #words
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I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.
What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?
#Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #FediverseInformation #FediBook #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #Wordcount -
Just over 24 hrs later...
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Being fundamentally incapable of writing to a word limit, I have just met my quota of allotted words and know that I must continue and then come back and delete.
At least I have become one with this writing practice. I like to think that it helps me hone my argument.
(This is a happier interpretation than "inadequate outlining on the front end")
#AmWriting #AcWri #WritingPractice #wordcount #DeletingIsWriting
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A website update where I talk about #WordCount, writing sprints, and #WritingCommunity type stuff! Egads! It's almost like I'm a #Writer or something!
jpohlmanwriting.com/blog/2025/1/2/january-2025-update-happy-new-year-amp-word-counts
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@annathepiper Reworking goals feels so much like changing the goalposts. It’s not. It’s so not. Assessment time and debriefing projects is not passing judgement on self — it’s just us glamorizing some of our goals over others (like word count). New Month! New Goals! Writing is being done! Every word is closer to the celebration!
#WritingMonth
#AmWriting
#writinggoals
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@annathepiper Reworking goals feels so much like changing the goalposts. It’s not. It’s so not. Assessment time and debriefing projects is not passing judgement on self — it’s just us glamorizing some of our goals over others (like word count). New Month! New Goals! Writing is being done! Every word is closer to the celebration!
#WritingMonth
#AmWriting
#writinggoals
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Nachdem ich grad aus Gründen an zwei (eigentlich drei) Projekten gleichzeitig schreibe, ist mein #writingmonth #wordcount etwas durcheinander. Gestern jedenfalls 956 Wörter an der Novella, heute 814 am Nonfiction-Anthologie-Beitrag. #Schreiben #Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #NaNoWriMo
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Nachdem ich grad aus Gründen an zwei (eigentlich drei) Projekten gleichzeitig schreibe, ist mein #writingmonth #wordcount etwas durcheinander. Gestern jedenfalls 956 Wörter an der Novella, heute 814 am Nonfiction-Anthologie-Beitrag. #Schreiben #Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #NaNoWriMo
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After years of posting here, I've learned to make both my sentences and paragraphs as short as I can ; ) Re-reading my old blog posts, I'm struck by the epic length of both.
Why on Earth did I make them so long? I suspect it was caused by a couple of years writing university assignments. Where there's a tension between including as much information as possible, and staying within the word limit. Maybe longer sentences reduce the need for joining words that count against that limit?
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Why are word counters in applications so wildly different and how do you actually find out what a projects true word count is, when the application you're working in is not sure?
E.g:, A document in Libre office, has a different word count in Google docs, has a different word count in novelwriter, has a different word count in charactercounter.com
Obviously knowing your projects word count is important, especially when making submissions
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Easily Count Characters And Words In Text Files Using Python #Python #Script #Wordcount #Charactercount #CLI
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If you need a word counter, and you are writing something in something that doesn't have a word counter (as I just was) this is a good word counter.
https://wordcount.com/
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Meet Jikininki-the corpse eater. He makes a dramatic appearance in my current (working on) short story.
Between recording _The Book of Japanese Folklore_ , researching and writing podcasts, and reading my new tome that came in the mail, I was able to write 825 words.
#amwriting #wordcount #shortstory #horror #japan #japanhorror #jikininki
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Gonna start posting my daily word counts because I must finish some short stories this year AND my mid grade book I've been dillydallying over.
But since no one really cares about word counts, I'm going to sweeten the proverbial pot w/ some magnificently wtf daily doodle, as I record my journey learning how to make digital art, figure out my own style, & get these images out of my head.
Tanuki says, "I am not a raccoon!" Also, "472 words on a short story."
