Russell Butler wrote: > 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 >
That I understand, but from the initial question that launched this thread, the author was interested in "average words per day/week/time period" as some sort of bench mark rather than an overall number. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
