When I started out six years ago I first aimed for a completed first draft novel and after that I was aiming for 1,000,000 words. I crossed 1M in the middle of last year with around 1300 hours of writing. (I track both in a spreadsheet though the hours are fuzzy and includes editing time.)
Currently I stand at 1,329,847 words. Around 400,000 is published on SubStack, mostly short stories and novellas alongside one old novel (which I think is bad now) and the rest is spread over 5 unpublished novels.
This really piqued my interest. Writing is my chosen profession and my hobby. While I write a ton of non-fiction for my day job, I can never escape the pull of storytelling. It's been my passion since I was hardly a decade into my existence. Now, sunsetting into my late twenties and at the earliest stages of my writing career, I feel this would be a great goal to chase.
Love this idea and before this morning I wasn’t actually sure how many words I’d written altogether. A quick count comes up with 248k, but I’m sure there are things I’ve missed. Still, being a quarter of the way to a million is more than I expected and encouraging.
Interesting. Are you considering only finalized, published words count? A first draft of 100,000 words pared down to 90,000 in subsequent drafts, even with new scenes, would then add 90,000 words to your progress?
Count me in dear sir!
- [done] Stories vol. 1, including the Debut Project - 58949
- [done] The Deleted Scenes from the Bestselling Utopian Novel - 33700
- [wip] Stories vol. 2 - 23600
- [wip] Anecdotic Adventures of Khorya and Borya - 9500
- [wip] my next big project, a novel - 11300
Total: 137100
if I am not mistaken
This is a great initiative, I'm in!
When I started out six years ago I first aimed for a completed first draft novel and after that I was aiming for 1,000,000 words. I crossed 1M in the middle of last year with around 1300 hours of writing. (I track both in a spreadsheet though the hours are fuzzy and includes editing time.)
Currently I stand at 1,329,847 words. Around 400,000 is published on SubStack, mostly short stories and novellas alongside one old novel (which I think is bad now) and the rest is spread over 5 unpublished novels.
Count me in. 213k words down. A multi-million more to go.
I'm coming in with a mere 42,000 words of short fiction, but I'm excited about the prospects of this! Let's get writing!
This really piqued my interest. Writing is my chosen profession and my hobby. While I write a ton of non-fiction for my day job, I can never escape the pull of storytelling. It's been my passion since I was hardly a decade into my existence. Now, sunsetting into my late twenties and at the earliest stages of my writing career, I feel this would be a great goal to chase.
Love this idea and before this morning I wasn’t actually sure how many words I’d written altogether. A quick count comes up with 248k, but I’m sure there are things I’ve missed. Still, being a quarter of the way to a million is more than I expected and encouraging.
I'm in. Sign me up and stick me on the board with a tiny 70k so far
Estimated, but I think that's right. 55k on the novel, 3k of Fables, 14k published short stories, 2k on an early failed novel.
Make it 75k.
Interesting. Are you considering only finalized, published words count? A first draft of 100,000 words pared down to 90,000 in subsequent drafts, even with new scenes, would then add 90,000 words to your progress?
It sounds like an interesting challenge.
How long will this offer me open? I've got too much on my plate to add one...more...challenge.
BUT this excites me enough that I'm making a plan to complete a specific set of projects to make room to come join the party.
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So does that mean that if I go back and count up everything I’ve written and it’s over 10 million that I’m now a master?