农民种地论亩数，工人做工按件数，作家写作则是讲字数。衡量一个作家的创作成果除了看作品的质量之外，就是看他究竟写了多少个字。通常作家的字数以万为单位计，于是就有了某作家写了多少万字的习惯说法。也正是这一点，使我想到有必要说一说作家的字数。我不时感到困惑... Mu farming theory of farmers, workers work by the number of pieces, writers are talking about the number of words. In addition to looking at the quality of a work, a writer’s work is a measure of how many words he actually wrote. Often the number of words written by a writer is in tens of thousands, so there is a habitual account of how many thousand words a writer has written. This is precisely what made me think it necessary to say the number of writers. I feel puzzled from time to time ...