The quest for 1,000,000 words

Do you remember when I talked about meeting Trudi Canavan and how she told us that she belivied the reason she had gotten her books published was that she had written a million words before she ever tried. She told us something along the lines of 'I belive you have to write a million words before you can writte anything good.'

This, along with me being about to complete Nanowrimo 2008 (and rather a bit above 50,000 words may I add) has inspired me to set myself a challenge. I will write 1 million words by the time I graduate from Uni. Assignments, creative writing, and any blog posts/other writing that I have put at least some deal of effort into will count towards the overall word count. Doing stuff like taking lecture notes will not. I'll take it on a case by case basis. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I can achieve this, and more than anything it is about giving myself a reason to write all of those things I have been meaning to get writen. So, I'm going to start tracking my progress here. And I'm going to break it down as well, to track my progress on individual projects and show how much progress I am making.

If anyone else wants to join me on the challenge heres the break down: Write 1,000,000 words in three years, 333,334 a year, 27,777 words a month, or 915 words a day... around about. It realy doesn't seem that hard does it? Not when you compare it to nano pacing, and take into acount that you are going to be writing 3 Nano's in this time period, and a hell of alot of essays. Oh and also, I'm starting this challenge retrospectivly, from November 1 this year. The aim is to learn about myself, about how I write, and to get stuff writen. It's a little less fast paced than nano, and I will probably give up in a months time, but hell, it's worth a try.

My progress so far:

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Oh and as for my 2008 Nano, Wunderkind:
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I think I did well enough, don't you think.