Words being removed?

[pinknekofire]

Not sure if this is a bug or what. I was looking at my stats and noticed my word count is over 1k less than it is on Royal Road. I checked my core document, and the Royal Road count is correct. Did some more comparisons, and every single chapter I have checked here has less words in it? Usually only a few dozen per chapter. I'm very confused. On skimming over it, the chapters look intact, so not sure what is going on? Is there some phrasing or specific words that get auto deleted? I didn't find anything that stood out as being gone when checking?

 

[LilRora]

This may depend on how words are counted. Sometimes, for example, articles are not counted, or sometimes things like hyphens and other special characters might be counted differently. Specifically on writing sites, there may also be some differences if author's notes are counted differently. I never checked how this works on Scribble Hub but I expect one of those is the cause.

 

[pinknekofire]

I copied and pasted the chapter from here in a blank word document, and did the same with my core document. It is indeed less words in the published chapter here. I think need to repost a chapter while doing copy pastes to see if the words vanish during the initial pasting or after publishing