hi! so first of all, I am IN AWE of your yearly word count (dear god) and so congrats on meeting your goal and being an amazing writer! esp for working through things that were hard without giving up, bc that's probably the best sign of strength in my mind! secondly, I'm having trouble with how to count words - for example, this year I was writing a fic and it got really long so I divided it up into diff docs and edited them there, how does one count that? etc, just misc word counting advice?
Thank you! I still don’t feel like I write that much? Like... it’s not like I’m having 10K days or whatever. On average, I write just under 1500/day. It’s all about being consistent and trying to write every day or as close to it as possible.
Which brings me to your question. I use wordkeeperalpha to keep track of my word count. I’ve written about it here. It does depend on you logging your words every night, but then it does all the math for you.
You would just create a project for this fic, and then any time you wrote words in any of the documents that make up the story, you could punch that amount into wordkeeperalpha. So maybe some nights you’d have small numbers from three different documents if you jumped around a lot, and WKA would make it look like it was all from one project. Because it is.
Alternately, you could create a spreadsheet to do the math for you. Date column down the left side, columns for each separate document, then a tally column on the right side that adds up the row.