I didn't have the heart to tell him that word count is how nearly all freelance writers are paid.
The final word count came out at 160,087 words.
The total word count for this year was over 2.6 million words.
Total word count at the end of the challenge was 2,313,249 by 167 participants.
The minimum word count varies but is usually between 15,000 to 17,500 words.
When discussing a picture book for the very young the point is not the word count but the underlying idea.
There were, on average, 96 facts in each country's profile and the total word count for the series was about 120,000 words.
Writers today are taught to write to make every word count - which is, I think, as it should be.
If I want to see the word count of every ".
There are some authors who have no problem meeting their daily word count.
