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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this of their writing, but when I'm editing a manuscript, it has this uncanny ability to actually grow in size, even if I'm doing large amounts of hack, slash, and burn. Have any of you seen this before? I'm not sure how many actually keep an eye on their word counts, but I like to do it.
It's like a car geek who keeps one eye on the road, and one eye on the tachometer. But in my case it's one eye on the text and one eye on the word count. lol. I know it seems odd, but I think it's just fun and intriguing to watch how the word count changes over the course of editing.
Anyone else do this? And do you see your word counts actually rise as you do your editing?
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I slash and burn, then I add intricacies to the plot and it ends up the size it was before - Few Are Chosen went from 120k to 90k to just over 100k.
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