For a while, I have been wondering, why Fimfiction always seems to assign higher word count for my story chapters than my editor does. Today, I’ve done a few experiments and found the answer: Fimfiction’s word count parser counts ’ – that is, a single quote – as a word break character. Which basically means that “I’m” or “don’t” both count as two words each, rather than one. I hesitate to call that a bug, but I’m not sure this behavior is correct either.
Since even Bad Horse says I’ve out-nerded him, I might as well explain how I did it in great, excruciating detail. Because I’ve finally published the results as fit for human/pony consumption.
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