Date: 2007-12-20 20:04 Subject: [writing] Average word length, chart edition Security: Public Location: Nuevo Rancho Lake Mood: amused Music: evening sounds Tags: books, cat waxing, funny, green, process, writing

Per the average word length post, I have ( charted the responses received thus far in comments. )

Note that my number is for Green, not my general body of work.

Date: 2007-12-20 09:49 Subject: [writing] Average word length Security: Public Location: Nuevo Rancho Lake Mood: amused yet well-informed Music: house noises Tags: books, cat waxing, funny, green, process, writing

Watching Word open the working file on Green, I thought about the character count it briefly displays. A quick bit of math later, I have determined that the average character count per word (not including spaces) in this mss as it exists right now is 4.29. The equivalent statistic for Wikipedia is about 3.5.

What's your average character count per word on your current project?