write a million words

So here’s how it’s going to work:

Based on a rough estimate of stuff I’ve already written, I’m using a starting point of 350,000 words.

My goal is to write at least 500 words every single day, come hell or high water. I may change this later, but it’s a good starting point.

Every day I’ll post how many words I wrote here, along with the total wordcount and percentage to show how far along I am.

DAY 1: 1,196

DAY 2: 780

351976 / 1000000 words. 35% done!

Write a million words and you’ll know what kind of writer you will become.

I’ve done NaNoWriMo a few times, and have written quite a few other stories over the years; still, I’d have to say that I am pushing no more than 350,000 words total. I often find myself angsting about the quality of my work to the point of actually being paralyzed into doing nothing, which is the WORST possible solution. So I’m throwing caution to the winds and just going for broke.

One million words, here I come – slowly, but surely.

I’ve set myself a deadline for writing my million words: by my birthday in 2010. That works out to about 816 words a day; so that I don’t drive myself insane keeping count, I am going to count it in pages, or about 3 pages a day for 3500 pages total. That comes out to about half the speed of NaNoWriMo.

They say the first million words anyone writes are crap (or, more politely, “rubbish”, or, more charitably, “practice”).

I havnt been keeping track so far, but I’m going to get that million words out of the way.