How to figure out how many words a day you write

Apart from using the tools, word count option on WORD when you are writing, it is pretty much impossible to figure out what you "wrote" when you are editing. My honest opinion is that I don't think it is terribly important the number of words you write. I only do that when I am in a challenge. If you are editing I think the amount of TIME you spend is just as important as the number of words you type. Good luck!

If you're doing an asignment with a minimum or maximum word requirement, all that matters is the final count. Otherwise, I think that what you accomplish in terms of a goal is more important than how many words it adds up to. If you want to set challenges for yourself, the important thing is how many words a day you want to write, and whether you're able to achieve that. Setting challenges that are higher and higher is a good way to improve your productivity, as long as you're able to maintain focus and do the necessary work of final editing.

I working for an international publishing company which involved in typesetting the authors works and Ienjoyed reading the written words. I do write articles of some topics which I like the most like travalogue. It goes by moods and when I am in a mood I can write more than 5000 words. I put them in PC and read next day and remove some 1000 words and replace with some 250 to 300 words to make sentence read easy. But I cannot write everyday, because wrting is not my profession. This adding, taking and replacing is a must in order to make the book your true expression. It is always said that written words should not be sent to Press or for Publication (unless one is a reporter). If it is kept for a day or two, then read again, the author will beable to edit it better. I normally read the article to my friends and they suggest improvements which made the script quite interesting to read. Using of appropriate words, phrases or sentences give a lot of character to the book. You seem to be more expert in that field, I only shared my feeling. Thanks and have a nice day.

Yeah, I don't think that it is really possible to have a useful word count when you are in the revising or editing stages of your books. When you are writing, you can always check your word count at the beginning and the end of the day, but I think that ceases to be useful once you have finished the first draft. I would have no clue how many words I write every day, since all of my writing is done online. Only when I am writing articles for one site in particular do I even bother to check my word count, and that is because of a minimum word count for those articles.

i don't think i can tell you how many words i write every day.the quantity would be different day by day but i certainly can't tel you the aproximative number without counting them.

well now thats a toughy to answer,i have the slightest clue on how many words i count,i guess every day would be different and i never really thought about that,but it is quite interesting,i think we would be amazed on how many words we really do type a day,our computers should have a little count button on it for every word we type,hey that soundfs pretty neat.

nice mathematical calculation dear, indeed you are right, but God knows how well he writes, so it might be possible, and writing needs practice may be with time, you will be smart enought to calculate your words. and best of luck for your writing

I think if you're a professional writer you probably get a feel for how much you've written. For example, I have no idea how many words are on a page, but lets say for example that 1 page is an average of 500 words. So if you write 4 pages, that would be roughly 2000 words. Then if you're revising and rewriting, for me, I would count 4 pages of revision to be 2000 words even if I didn't completely rewrite the thing.

I think they only count the words they write, not the ones they delete, but I could be wrong. Every writer is different and has their own style. I think the important element is the writing every day, part more than how much is written. I know in typing class, we had ways of counting how much we wrote. Now adays, there are programs that count how many words you've typed.

Suaspense I must apologise for the errors in the posting but I am stealing time at the office becos the boss is not here. so dont judge me too harshly becos normally i type without so much errors and i always proof read but stealing boss's time is not a good thing here ok?

I am a Secretary by profession and when I am adminsitering the typign tests for other Secretaries there is a sheet with the aount of words per line and then you divide it by the amount of lines actually typed. For me I would count the maount of word typed in one line, coutn the amount of lines typed and multiply the words counted by the lines then divide by 10. Atleast this waht waht were taught in Secretarial school. The same was done is shorthand classes too. I currently type at a speed of 260 words per minute could be more by now the way my boss pushes me to accomplish long documents in a short period. Otherwise I havent checked in along time and will not do so. I just love to write and type so its no biggy for me and I think you should not either. Just enjoy your writing thats the way to go. I love writing in shorthand too I did pitman

i am quite doubt about the meaning of "figure out the quantity of words you worte a day". is it useful or not?! i just care about how should i do to make the article become aticulately.