From the course: Productivity Hacks for Writers

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Introduction to word counts

Introduction to word counts

(tranquil music) - The holy grail metric of an author is daily word count, or more specifically the active daily word count, which is the average number of words written per day while actively working on a project. In order to understand how well the strategies in this course are working, we'll be measuring your active daily word count right now, before you've tried any of the hacks in this course, and continue to measure it on a daily basis moving forward. This way you'll have some actual data points to use to determine how much impact the hacks you implement have on your productivity. So let's dive in and find out how to calculate your starting active daily word count.

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