My next work, 1st draft. 27.9k words so far.

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…

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

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")

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

If my students can do it, I can do it!
#wordcount #amwriting #GetErDone

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?

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

Easily Count Characters And Words In Text Files Using Python #Python #Script #Wordcount #Charactercount #CLI
https://ostechnix.com/count-characters-and-words-in-text-files-using-python/

I'm over half done with Draft 2.5, and I can tell my writing has improved, just during the course of this one draft.

If I extrapolate, my book will be over 160k words by the end of Draft 2.5. At 300 words per page, that's a 544 page book. I want to add even more description in later drafts, but I also know I'll need to cut about 25% of my wordcount to reach that magical 120k limit for a debut fantasy novel.

#Draft2point5
#WordCount
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy

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/
#writingcommunity #wordcount

A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

«
Reader, had I the space to write at will,
I should, if only briefly, sing a praise
of that sweet draught. Would I were drinking still!
But I have filled all the pages planned
for this, my second, canticle, and Art
pulls at its iron bit with iron hand.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/68376/

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.

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."

#wordcount thoughts

I tried NaNoWriMo a couple times and didn't get far at all. Both times, the month I was doing it in (one of them was camp NaNo in the summer) was way too hectic for me to fit a high intensity project into.

I've also got stories I've been slowly chipping away at for years. Enough years that it seems like I'm not really moving toward finishing anything longer than a short story.

Just recently, drafting on paper seems to help me avoid switching to editing when I'm supposed to be making words. Two pages in a little notebook is about 250 words (including my normal amount of crossing things out and rephrasing as I type it up).

250 words a day for a year is 90,000. This seems surprisingly doable? Even with the inevitable missed days and cut scenes, I'd still be left with something rough draft shaped.

4090 words out of the minimum of 6100 I need to do today.
Not a very productive day. I could have done more.

This raises the average to 6500 words per day.

Still doable.

Side note: I need to stop pulling names out of my ass to give to side characters. I keep having to go back to learn again how I called someone who seemly didn't have any importance when they first appeared.