@astronomerritt fiction.
And when I say "tends to", I mean if he's not paying attention to word count, his word count often balloons. So he tries to be rigorous about keeping under the limit he sets himself (120k), which often means purposefully removing words during edits (unless it's an edit where he realizes that the story needs a while extra scene to make things make sense)
Artemis
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I feel like most writers I know end up cutting words from the draft when they edit.@astronomerritt my partner tends to add words when editing (depending on the type of edit he's doing). Often he wants to keep the book under a word goal, and will purposefully edit with the secondary goal of removing words