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My total word count posted on BC has just gone over one million.
I suppose that was almost inevitable given my immediate infatuation with a word processor three decades ago.
Thank you Erin for giving me a place to publicly display my stories.
As a dear friend of mine, Percy Ross, said many times, "Thanks a million!"
Jill
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And thank you, Jill. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Well done Angela
and welcome to the club. I'll be at about 1.1 million when I've finished posting 'Sixty...'.
Even if at times we might look at the lack of comments etc the sheer amount of work that we have put in to reach that milestone is impressive.
Well done again and keep on posting!
Samantha
Congratulations Jill!
Even without a million you still are one of the pillars the BC rests on.
Words, Words, Words
and several other quotes from another proliferate wordsmith come to mind.
In my opinion you have taken "Words without thoughts never to heaven go" to heart.
Eventually I'll get there too (i.e. one million words). I just have to figure out how to live for another 170 years.
Congratulations
Bru
Each of Your Stories
. . .is a picture.
One hundred stories equal. . ..
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Got me curious
This got me curious so I added up my word count. I didn't include the Reluctant Series, I'm With the Band or Texas Belles since they've been removed from the site. I have a word count just over 1,023,000 give or take.
Melanie
It's Not the Count
. . .as much as what you do with them.
You're a much better writer than I am. If I am choosing between reading one of my old stories and reading one of yours. . .your story easily wins.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I suspect that stories are like cooking.
I find eating other people's cooking is so much more enjoyable that eating my own. I've never actually asked but have just assumed that most authors enjoy reading other peoples stories than reading their own.
Reading your own
The problem with reading my own is while I loved the story (or else why write it!!), any re-read inevitably causes cringing at missed editing opportunities to tighten a phrase, improve a description, or even -gasp- fix that cut-n-paste-over-editting-residue typo. It's easier to read other people's works without the editing hat on, though if I've been in editing mode for a week or so the straps on that dang hat are really hard to loosen...
I believe
you've got this down...
Sir Edwin: Ah, well, I don't want you to get the impression it's just a question of the number of words... um... I mean, getting them in the right order is just as important. Old Peter Hall used to say to me, 'They're all there Eddie, now we've got to get them in the right order.' And, er, for example, you can also say one word louder than another--er, 'To *be* or not to be,' or 'To be *or* not to *be*,' or 'To be or not to *be*' you see? And so on.
Love, Andrea Lena
Congrats, Jill (and others)! But...
I think you all have more time than I do!
I don't have time to go back and open each of my stories (some of which I don't even have in Word anymore) and check the word count to add them up! *GIGGLE*
I'm sure it's over a hundred thousand, though.... ;-)
Please keep adding to your count (all of you)!
HUGS!
S
Numbers Are My Life
I swim in numbers in my business. One more spreadsheet to tabulate story stats is a natural occurrence for me.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
70 559
is the word count of the file where I've collected all my stories. That almost certainly is not exactly the same as I would get if I added the "official" word counts. However, the difference is not that big.
As for numbers: As the engineer cum economist child of a mother who carved out a niche as one of the foremost experts in her area based on a steel grip of statistics and a father who was an accountant ...
Bru
(85 stories, 17597 kudos)
Not the way I planned to spend my day
Ok, I have done it.
Took all the data from my story list and dropped it is a spreadsheet, but needed to check each word count.
11 months 213 stories for a total of 719,300 words at an average of 3,376 words per story
448,815 reads and 22,516 kudos.
Now why did I do this again??
Maryanne
One million words???
There's NO WAY you could have
posted 4X as many words as I have!!
I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!!
And I am never ever going to congratulate you
on your fake word count since you STOLE those words from me!!
~You'll hear from my lawyers, Veronica
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
Dopamine Might Help You
eom
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
EOM?
Does that stand for "End of Message"?
(I received such a comment in one of my stories.)
BTW: It's fun to be silly.
-- Daphne Xu
I dont have the spoons to count words
just figuring out how many stories I have here was hard enough
Just a count!
Is there an easy way to do a word count?
Maryanne
Word count
This is hopelessly subjective. Each bit of software does things using different rules and the format makes a difference too.
A simple method is to look at the bottom of each of your submissions on BC: there will be a word count there one might class as "official", at least for the site. You can then tot them up just by using the "next" link at the bottom and a calculator. Your favorite word processor will doubtless have a different idea of the count.
I have often thought that the word count of a piece should go at the top where the Kudos are displayed. That way one could determine whether one had enough time to read the item then, or to leave it until later. Having been caught out with some humungous entries, 40,000 words, 70,000 words or greater, this would be useful.
Penny
What counts far more than word count ...
... is the pleasure that you (and I include all authors, here and elsewhere) have given to your readers. And sometimes happy sniffles, and sad sniffles, and insights.
And (geeky me), my browsers let me highlight a word or phrase, right click it for search, then I spend half an hour bouncing on Wikipedia. Sometimes, I can go 'visit' the places your characters 'walked' in. At least one author here specializes in musical links, adding another dimension to the stories. Similarly for food links ...
Being that I am quite 'selfish' ... please stop counting and resume writing already!
Thanks all! You make my days nicer :)
Well that's a pretty darn neat milestone to hit!
I wonder how many I've written over the years? Not that I'll find out, since I'm too lazy to bother going through all that work!
Congrats!
Melanie E.