Editor Counter

Editing is often about subtraction, not addition. The Editor Counter is a specialized tool designed to visualize your editing workflow. Unlike a standard word counter that just shows a total, this tool tracks the specific volume of content you have removed or added during a session.

In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Why Track Your "Changes"?

Professional editors subscribe to the "10% Rule"—the idea that almost any first draft can be improved by cutting 10% of its words without losing any meaning. This tool acts as your scorecard. If you paste a 1,000-word draft and end up with 900 words, you know you've successfully tightened your prose.

Watching the number turn red (indicating words removed) is often a badge of honor for novelists and journalists. Conversely, if you are a student struggling to meet a minimum length requirement, watching the number turn green gives you the motivation to expand your arguments.

3 Steps to ruthless Editing

1. The "Search and Destroy" Method: Look for "glue words" that add no value. Common culprits include: very, really, just, that, in order to, actually. Delete them on sight.
2. Active Voice Conversion: Passive sentences are wordy.
   Passive: "The ball was thrown by the boy." (6 words)
   Active: "The boy threw the ball." (5 words)
   Multiply this saving across a whole document, and you save pages.
3. Kill Your Darlings: Sometimes you write a beautiful sentence that has nothing to do with your main point. It must go. Paste it here to see how much space you save by removing off-topic tangents.

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