I’m currently in the process of revising a story and need a way to keep track of the new words I’m writing/editing. I currently use Ulysses and honestly love it, but if Scrivener has the capacity to show stats on daily/session word count without deleted words affecting it, I would likely switch.
Isn’t that what Format > Revision Mode is for? This just colors your additions and doesn’t count them.
It would be interesting to gather Statistics about Revisions.
Remember snapshots. If do one before revise and label and do second after revision can rollback or compare. If compare see both additions and subtractions between two points in time in editing process. That may be what you want as well as using revision mode. Try it with next scene and see
I just tried it out (because it seemed like potentially interesting to me), but it does count the words (under windows).
I meant Scrivener doesn’t count the words you added or changed in Revision Modes separately.
It does count them in general Statistics or Word Count.
Hmm… Sorry. I don’t understand.
@redblue I believe the way to accomplish what you want in Scrivener would be to use strikethrough during an editing session for text you mean to delete. That way, the text is still all there to be counted, so your working count always goes up. At the end of the day, or whenever, you can invoke a Scrivener command which removes all the struck-through text.
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