das wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:58 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote: >> Being a writer of largely unread fiction, I've really never seen >> progress as being defined as how many words you've written. Word >> count >> is encouraging to a point, but I can not really see how listing how >> many >> words you've written on a particular day would help. >> > > +1 > > Yeah, in my case I would correct your phrase as a 'writer of > devastatingly unread fiction/essays/books' I have never seemed to need > this thing too. In fact, being very specific about the volume in terms > of words is quite insulting to their status of being 'masterpiece'. :)
I'll jump in here from the depths of my ignorance, but I think some journalists are paid by the volume produced. I suspect students doing 5000 word essays would like to know when they were approaching the magic number also. Certainly before the function was included, other than by File-Properties, the lack was frequently complained about. Russell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
