I was thinking this morning about
the whole "write every day" thing so often said to new writers (at a
later date, I will write at length about why this is terrible advice), and was
thinking about how much of the culture of internet writing, particularly from
younger writers, is focused on word count. There is of course NaNoWriMo, but
there are also people who have "word wars" with each other to see who
can get the most words down in a given amount time, as well as people who
will set daily writing goals of a certain amount of words per day.