Today I submit an article to a client. One of my favorite parts of the writing process is watching the number of words change until I meet the word count limit. I thought I would share my word count process from this article.
The words are from 4 sources, 29 single pages of handwritten notes from the phone interviews, 9 typed pages of notes and snippets from 6 supporting documents from sources.
Word limit of article: 1700 words
READY. SET. GO.
2,761
2,321
2,365
2,155
2,230
2,196
2,180
An interruption of two battle droids (aka my two boys) who snuck into my office to “attack” me. They didn’t expect me to play along. I ignored them, “collapsed” on the floor and waited. Silence and then giggles.
2,186
2,102
2,116
2,109
2,092
2,135
1,988
1,918
1,925
1,924
1,843
1,825
1,775
1,765
1,686
Under the 1700 word count!
Laugh! I love the battle droid sequence!
Yeah for getting it under the limit!
So sweet and funny! Your boys provided you with a well needed break from the word count game by playing the Battle of the Droids game. Loved this slice, Jessica.
This was very refreshing and a great spoof about word counts in general:)
You made me smile.
What fun and a good spoof on word counts in general:) You made me laugh.
Wow. All my college career I was trying to get up to a word count or page count. Congrats!
I do this kind of thing, too. Usually with tweets trying to get down to the 140 character limit. Editing down is actually kind of a fun project.
Wow, 1000 words.
going
going
gone