A month or so ago, I began buddy writing with a friend. Each day we email each other with our goal for that day. Since I’ve begun using Scrivener, I find myself thinking more in terms of word count, while my friend thinks in terms of pages.
Are you a word counter or a page counter? Inquiring minds want to know!
Counting words and pages doesn’t work for me. It feels artificial, sort of like counting punctuation marks to gauge progress. I go by “scene” but not necessarily to count them as in “adding up how many” but making everything I write count (even if I delete it later, it meant something at the time to put it on paper). And I don’t measure the length of the scene. It just has to be shaped.