So I was thinking… a picture is worth 1000 words, right? In my novel, there’s a lot of different places that readers* will need to be able to see on a map, to help them make sense of the story**. To help me write the novel, I started making a very, very rough map of the continent last night in Photoshop, with geographic features and cities on it. Since it’ll basically be required in the book for the usage of readers, can I put my little scribblings map at the beginning of the novel and add 1000 words to my word-count?
Yeah, I didn’t think so either…
* By saying that readers will need to be able to see the lay of the land on a map, I’m not implying that this terrible, horribly written piece of fiction, which is full of plot holes and stiff characters novel will ever come even close to seeing the light of day. In all likelihood it will be burned and then buried in an atomic waste facility.
** I use the term ’story’ very loosely here. It’s probably more similar to taking fifteen dictionaries, cutting out all of the words, and then arranging them randomly. Yes, it’s that bad. 
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