No mocking. But this is why I'm really leery of whiz bang writing programs and stick to Word.
I write in SMF, courier 12pt, double spaced lines, etc. in MSWord. As I told Ms. E down there, my agent told me to stop doing word count that way, she only wants to hear about MSWord count. The word count I post in progress reports is MSWord, but that's just so I know I'm making progress.
So doing it this way, I keep track of page counts and MSWord count at the same time. When I finished writing last night I had exactly 80 pages. MSWord tells me that is 17,304 words. If I do the 250 words per page SMF count, that says 20k. That is a big difference.
Mostly I shoot for page count. Somewhere between 400-450 pages is in the ballpark. Then I stick MSWord count on there for the agent. It makes her happy.
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:15 pm (UTC)I write in SMF, courier 12pt, double spaced lines, etc. in MSWord. As I told Ms. E down there, my agent told me to stop doing word count that way, she only wants to hear about MSWord count. The word count I post in progress reports is MSWord, but that's just so I know I'm making progress.
So doing it this way, I keep track of page counts and MSWord count at the same time. When I finished writing last night I had exactly 80 pages. MSWord tells me that is 17,304 words. If I do the 250 words per page SMF count, that says 20k. That is a big difference.
Mostly I shoot for page count. Somewhere between 400-450 pages is in the ballpark. Then I stick MSWord count on there for the agent. It makes her happy.