A quick question for writers
Apr. 29th, 2009 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msagaraI mentioned earlier that I have been using the equivalent of MS Word's wordcount while writing, and that this has not perhaps been very smart. I know that we're all looking at the lengths of our various books, and I was wondering: How do you keep track of wordcount while writing? Because I had an extra 45K words and an extra 25K words when looking at the page runoffs on the two books I did write in Scrivener, and this was ... unfortunate. And I would like not to repeat it if I can*.
If you need to turn in a 100k manuscript--or a manuscript of a specific maximum length--do you check the runoff count as part of your daily writing, do you format it in manuscript format so you write -to- a runoff count?
ETA: * I am aware that there might be a bit of gentle mockery at this point
If you need to turn in a 100k manuscript--or a manuscript of a specific maximum length--do you check the runoff count as part of your daily writing, do you format it in manuscript format so you write -to- a runoff count?
ETA: * I am aware that there might be a bit of gentle mockery at this point
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:51 pm (UTC)It is true that I ended up ignoring word count totals just to finish the last book, because by that time I was so stressed at how long it was I was almost afraid to add words. Which, of course, made finishing anything a touch more difficult.