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Jay Lake
Date: 2007-12-20 20:04
Subject: [writing] Average word length, chart edition
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Location:Nuevo Rancho Lake
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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.

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Jay Lake
Date: 2007-12-20 09:49
Subject: [writing] Average word length
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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?

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