I was surfing the blogs and saw Miss Snark did an interview with The Writing Playground. Checking out her snarkiness, I saw this interesting question and response…
PC: If you could give newbie writers one piece of advice about writing they would have to follow, what would it be?
MS: Write 1,000,000 words before you query an agent.
1,000,000 words? Sheesh, that sounds like a lot, which got me to thinking…how many words HAVE I written in four years? (I started seriously writing in 2002).
Being the ever-curious person I am, I checked out my published books and uncontracted or partial books and did a talley. OMG, I’d written 850K words in four years…and that didn’t include various works I started in the early stages of my writing, one of which was an 80K historical novel. LOL!
Interesting excercise, I must say. If you’re an author reading this blog, where do you fall in this 1M word range?
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I’m sitting somewhere around 700K. I have several partials that haven’t made it into the computer. (I wrote them when there were floppy discs. 
I guess I better get to work so I can hit that last 300K. Although, if rewriting counted, I could say with sincerity that I passed 1 mil mark a LONG time ago. LOL!
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Huh, I’ve already written 1,000,000 and then some. Wonder if I get her 1mil award?
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I have NO idea, lol.
I suppose it would be about a million, heck, my Alexander series was seven books each over 100k - yikes!
by Sam
on April 5th, 2006 at 9:00 am
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I have NO idea, lol.
I suppose it would be about a million, heck, my Alexander series was seven books each over 100k - yikes!
by Sam
on April 5th, 2006 at 9:00 am
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Jeez, never thought about that, but guess I have. Wow, what a thing to contemplate!
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Hey Jordan, I’d be right there with you on the rewriting part! LOL!
by Patrice
on April 6th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
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Hey Faith, wouldn’t that be cool if she gave an award?
by Patrice
on April 6th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
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Hey Sam,
Yes, you’re very prolific!
by Patrice
on April 6th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
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Hey Chey,
Yes, I thought so too. That’s why I just HAD to go and check. heh
by Patrice
on April 6th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
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Probably about half, fiction-wise.
by Bernita
on April 12th, 2006 at 7:07 am
