If you will forgive the cliché, counting words is a writers bread and butter. There are word counts for everything. Each type of writing comes with a word length guideline. Every magazine has a different word length, often for each different genre that they accept. Most of the challenges I have been taking on have been word count challenges. My 500 words is a fabulous challenge that got me back into writing everyday. The only rule is to write 500 words each day. NaNoWriMo is a word count challenge of 50,000 words in a 30 day time period. Even Camp NaNoWriMo has a word count challenge,though the limit is set…