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Drabbles are complicated you guys
This is a ridiculous entry about word counts. I noticed that I was getting different word counts from my old word count resource, here, and the one ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tales_100 recommends, here.
For example, this drabble is 100 words in the latter... but only 98 words in the former. How did I lose two words? When you manually count, there's clearly 100 words there. It's not the HTML for the one italicized word confusing things; I get the same counts from both resources with or without HTML.
I was kind of miffed about this afterfemslash100 gave this silly drabble a weirdly-colored star, and I looked it up, and you get that color star if your drabble has a random word count instead of an even 100. But it is 100 words. I counted! So I assume they're using a word counter that screwed me over. (This is a danger of being nitpicky about your word counts. Unless you do it yourself, and even if you do, you run the risk of alienating people. I am now mildly alienated.)
Li and I baffled for a while, and finally she realized: My old word count resource isn't counting line breaks as a space. So it reads "again.He" as one word instead of "again. [line break, line break] He" as two words.
Very weird.
tales_100 recommends, here.For example, this drabble is 100 words in the latter... but only 98 words in the former. How did I lose two words? When you manually count, there's clearly 100 words there. It's not the HTML for the one italicized word confusing things; I get the same counts from both resources with or without HTML.
I was kind of miffed about this after
femslash100 gave this silly drabble a weirdly-colored star, and I looked it up, and you get that color star if your drabble has a random word count instead of an even 100. But it is 100 words. I counted! So I assume they're using a word counter that screwed me over. (This is a danger of being nitpicky about your word counts. Unless you do it yourself, and even if you do, you run the risk of alienating people. I am now mildly alienated.)Li and I baffled for a while, and finally she realized: My old word count resource isn't counting line breaks as a space. So it reads "again.He" as one word instead of "again. [line break, line break] He" as two words.
Very weird.