as of midnight

I'm at just under 4 pages at 1300 words. I have a strange question though crossing my mind. So the prompt for the paper says 3000 words or 12 pages in a standard double spaced format. I've checked some of my other shit and I'm usually running about 350-400 words a page that means even going down to say 300 words a page thats only 10 pages. I'm not sure where this 12 pages is coming from he wants. Maybe my margins are too narrow. If at 3000 words I'm at 8-9pages as I project I might try going to a 1.25 margin to see if that pushes me to 12 cause otherwise I think he doesn't know how long papers are in actuality.

With that in mind I'm gonna take a stretch and walk around for a few minutes to get the blood flowing and wake up some then settle back down to work in 20 or so. I was really kicking myself at first that I hadn't broke 5 pages at midnight until I did that wordcount.