Alex Leslie on Writing and Word Counts
Words Count | "I started working with a daily word count, a quota, when it became clear that the process for short prose did not function for the novel I was writing."
On Writing and Word Counts
by Alex Leslie
I was never a believer in word counts. When writer friends told me how many words they’d written — I wrote three thousand words today, someone told me over elk burgers at Banff once — a door in my brain quietly closed.
It wasn’t a feeling of superiority on my part, just difference. I was devoted to the short form,…