Many novel-writing software programs and apps include word count tracking as a feature, with varying levels of customization, and other writers use good old spreadsheets, but if you want more detailed stats or fancier graphs, or if you’re interested in tracking multiple projects at once, a dedicated word count tracker might be the best choice for you.
Here are a few of the options:
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Stephen King is one of the most popular and prolific authors of all time, and if you love to write fiction of any genre, whether the most bone-chilling horror, the sweetest and fluffiest romance, or the most artfully written and insightful literary fiction, his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Amazon | Bookshop) should be on your bookshelves. The first half is a fascinating memoir; the second, full of tried-and-true advice on the writing life.
King’s “Great Commandment” for would-be writers is this: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
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Writing on computers, tablets, and mobile phones offers many advantages over traditional pen-and-paper or typewriters, but they also come with far more distractions in the form of notifications popping up to interrupt your writing, time-wasting games and social media just a click or two away, and of course, the nearly infinite temptations of the internet at large.
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