Why do we count our words? What does it indicate? tags: erercises

We write and after we have written we want to know what we have done. At that point, we notice that there is a gap between words that we have written and in fact these words can be counted. We count the words and we keep a record. When we have written a five hundred words, we stop. In text sometimes it is not about words - it is about ploys and it is about mechanisms that we use and the meaning they contain. A hastily written poem, only a few lines in length sometimes might means more than a…