>>53131527Don't sweat about word count or scene count or anything like that. If editing or rewrites mandated the deletion of content, it was for the sake of a more polished end product - that's forward progress, even if you end up with less words than you started with.
Subtractive synthesis results in audible sound; subtractive color mixing results in visible images. So don't get too hung up on the subtractive processes of writing, either. It's all part of the job.