Million-Words-O-Crap
Feb. 28th, 2005 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raefinlayI (re)joined the OWW in June of '04. Out of curiosity, I added up all the words I've written since then. (Fiction words only.) And the grand total is:
120,000
Wow. That's just not very much. At this rate, I'll reach my Million-Words-O-Crap goal in eight years. Eight years!! *sigh* Ah well. Those years are going to pass me by one way or the other. I might as well spend them writing.
120,000
Wow. That's just not very much. At this rate, I'll reach my Million-Words-O-Crap goal in eight years. Eight years!! *sigh* Ah well. Those years are going to pass me by one way or the other. I might as well spend them writing.
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Date: 2005-02-28 04:32 pm (UTC)I remember hearing a story about an 80-year old grandmother who went back to university to get her degree. This 45-year was angsting over whether or not he wanted to spend the next 5-years of his life getting his. "I'll be 50!" he said. "Will it be worth it?"
"Well, in 5 years, you're going to be 50 anyway," she told him. "If you're going to worry about that too, you might as well have a degree to go with it." *g*
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Date: 2005-02-28 05:29 pm (UTC)