Fun With Word Counts

Mira Prabhu:

It always boggles my writer’s mind to think of Leo Tolstoy producing (ink quill in hand) War and Peace (561,304 words). Wow! Now read this post by Robert for more on an interesting facet of the writer’s world…in the end, we have to make every word count!


Originally posted on 101 Books:


This blog post is 133��words.



The average article I write for my day job is around 600 words.



The estimated word count on the book I���m pitching to agents is 50,000 words.



All that to say some of the word counts in the following infographic from Electric Literature blow my mind.



Some examples:


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Published on February 25, 2015 06:23
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