Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author @tomdellaringa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I see #writer friends lamenting their word count, but you should NEVER do that. Not all #writing is created equal. 466 words today, but I got through a very difficult scene that needed to be handled right. Writing is not throwing down words for the sake of words. Keep creating! #booksky 111328
Capt Gary K @captgaryk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025i have read to many many indy books were word count was obvious. skip 10 pages just get through to were the story continued. it added nothing to the story but word count 120
Author Nicole Calvo @authornicolecalvo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I dont even count words. Most people who aren't writers don't know a thing about word counts, and I'm usually the only writer I know so I always made it a habit to talk in pages or chapters. 🤣 010
David Galle @davidgalle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I made this way over complicated tracker that averaged my weekly goals/project goals so if I didn’t write enough one day the tracker would just add some more words for each of the following days the rest of the week. Or, if I had a very productive day, the rest of the week I could take it easy 110
Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Sometimes, the most difficult thing you can do in a book is master the 100 words that are the lynchpin of your story. There's a reason that poetry is an insanely difficult artform to master despite a significantly lower word count. 110
Candace J Thomas, author @candacejthomas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Dude, I count opening my manuscript as a success right now. 110
mistiblu @mistiblu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025One of my old fave authors says their early books were just freely written. Now they write with daily word count goals and it shows. The books are suffering. 030
J.W. Gant @johnwgant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025This is a false statement Tom: "you should NEVER do that". So, if we write 10 words per day indefinitely we should never be concerned? Better to say the volume will ebb and flow, try to look at the positive, and stay focused on the world you are looking into to write the story. 100
Persephone ✨️🐀✨️ 📚 🏴☠️ @persephonepond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I'm a newer writer, but I don't see the point in word count goals. Write for the story. Write for the adventure. Write without limits or expectations. 100
Faux Grouch @fauxgrouch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Today I read in "It Didn't Start With You" that expressing yourself in words is one of the most difficult things to do. 1) Can you speak? 2) do you have the words to explain? 3) do they know how to understand? 4) then what happens? The absolute vulnerability...(paraphrasing) 🥳 to all #writer folks 010
krysb-rice.bsky.social @krysb-rice.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I have about 15k words left to get done by the 31st and this post makes me feel better 😊 120
