Category Archive for: ‘Word Count’

• Writing

  You wondered when I’d post about writing, didn’t you? I wouldn’t let you down. 1500+ words today, though not on fiction. More later on that topic.

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• One down

  Finished a new short short tonight and it’s off to its first market. Wish it luck! It’s not really my usual kind of story (as if I have something typical that I write), and it may already be too late for that market. But, one …

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• The Updated Word Count

  The article I was working on at the end of July is currently on hiatus, waiting for next week when I can get back to it. The paper I’d finished a draft of in mid-July has been put on indefinite hold. It’s not that I …

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• Ye Old Article Word Count

  As of last night, word count was 1679 words. On the home stretch!

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• Article Update

  1109 words total. It’s feeling like around 2000 words now.

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• Article writing

  650 words written on an article I’d been stalling on. Go, me!

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• Today’s Progress at Work

  Managed to get all the references sorted out and a good chunk of writing done as well. $ wc -w paper.xml 4266 paper.xml I worked on it for a while, but there were a lot of other projects to be done at work as well.

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• Done for Tonight

  $ wc -w paper.xml 3486 paper.xml Must. Sleep.

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• Coming right along…

  $ wc -w paper.xml 2978 paper.xml ..though it’s shaping up slower than I’d intended.

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• Word Count Politics

  I realize that word counts are more problematic than one might think, but I finally have a good example of machine word counts that differ significantly. $ wc paper.xml 171 2212 15400 paper.xml So, 15,400 characters and 2212 words. BBEdit, however, reports 15,400 characters, 2509 …

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