I’ve found another thing to write a blog post about! The dreaded WORD COUNT.
Recently I’ve had some encounters with word count woes that make me want to talk about it. Firstly was this post on tumblr, taken from Nic Alderton but shared and probably called the most attention to by Neil Gaiman:

This is a very nice, simple, stripped-to-the-basics concept. But there’s something very wrong about this very simple, stripped-to-the-basics concept. It includes a limitation. It tells you that the basics...