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Old 02-27-2008, 03:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Interesting trivia:

In the article, Steve implies that his new book is 80,007 words (I'm sure that number is rounded, but work with me here). To make some observations, I did a little exercise to determine approx. how many pages Steve's book will have in it.

Method

I took an excerpt of Steve's text from his article and duplicated it many, many times. I made sure to take a sample that included words of various size (ie. I didn't just use words like "the" or "and"). The font I used was Times New Roman and I sized it at 11.

Result

Taking the page dimensions into account, 8,007 words that Steve is likely to use pasted into Microsoft Word says that Steve's book should be 137 pages long (or around that).

Final thoughts

Steve's pretty good at writing, and most people who are good at writing tend to express themselves efficiently and write books that are less than 200 pages, so it'll be interesting to see how accurate my experiment was/is.
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