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The art of counting words
Nov. 8th, 2006 11:42 amThe NaNoWriMo verified word counter has been shorting me by about a hundred for each word count. Which means when I reached 20,000 it actually had me back at 19,889.
So whatever my counter has now, add at least 100 to that.
Not that 100 words is that big of a deal, but when you want to make a big whoop about how you FINALLY got to the 20,000 mark and the word counter smacks you down and takes your glee? It's a big deal.
So I had to go and write more just to get to 20,000. Which I already had.
The counter says that it screws up in your favor, but shorting me a 100 words is not in my favor. Which means for NaNo to recognize me I actually need to write at least 50,100 words instead of 50,000 to get my little gold NaNo star.
The Zokotou counter was a little more generous to me.
It kind of bothers me that there's such a discrepancy between what Open Office, NaNoWriMo, Zokotou, and other word counters are telling me. Huh. Makes you wonder if they're actually counting the words or just averaging.
Which personally is a little irksome, because it means that you could, ostensibly, write every one of the 50,000 words you need and still get no credit for it because the damn counter screwed you.
*sigh*
I'll just have to make sure I've got enough left over so that it's not a problem.
So whatever my counter has now, add at least 100 to that.
Not that 100 words is that big of a deal, but when you want to make a big whoop about how you FINALLY got to the 20,000 mark and the word counter smacks you down and takes your glee? It's a big deal.
So I had to go and write more just to get to 20,000. Which I already had.
The counter says that it screws up in your favor, but shorting me a 100 words is not in my favor. Which means for NaNo to recognize me I actually need to write at least 50,100 words instead of 50,000 to get my little gold NaNo star.
The Zokotou counter was a little more generous to me.
It kind of bothers me that there's such a discrepancy between what Open Office, NaNoWriMo, Zokotou, and other word counters are telling me. Huh. Makes you wonder if they're actually counting the words or just averaging.
Which personally is a little irksome, because it means that you could, ostensibly, write every one of the 50,000 words you need and still get no credit for it because the damn counter screwed you.
*sigh*
I'll just have to make sure I've got enough left over so that it's not a problem.
