THE CHALLENGE

Write a million words in one year.

RULE ONE

Thou shalt write a million words in one year, the year 2010.

This equals 2740 words a day. In order to have a safety buffer and to make for a cooler sounding number,  thou shalt write 2875 words per day, every single day of the year, for an entire year.

RULE TWO

Thou shalt not “write ahead” then skip a day.

The idea is to train thyself to write every single day of thy life, and thou shalt not do that by getting all cute with the the system. If thou writest more than the Daily Allotment one day, it shall merely mean that thou might well hit thy goal of a million words a little earlier.

RULE THREE

Thou shalt not “cut and paste” more than 250 words per day

Or if thou dost, it will not count towards one’s Daily Allotment. It would defeat the point of the exercise if thou were to cut and paste other people’s content and call it a day. Duh!

RULE FOUR

There shall be no other “shortcuts”

No getting cute with “Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, so…” or anything else of the sort. It’s the Daily Allotment in fresh, original writing every single day, or nothing.

RULE FIVE

Thou shalt brook no restrictive notions about what said words must be

Other than RULE THREE, there is absolutely no restrictions as to what sort of writing shall count towards the Daily Allotment. Absolutely everything short of just dropping fresh lemons on the keyboard and calling that writing shall count. This can include, but is by absolutely no way restricted to, articles, essays, poems, fiction, political polemics, diarist diatribes, semi-incomprehensible screeds, random observations, attempted aphorisms, dirty limericks, blog-style journal entries, reviews, links to media with commentary, clean limericks, and the Book of Dreams.

No rotten lemons either. Ha ha ha.

RULE SIX

There may be more rules later, if thou thinks of them

I mean, no commitment here, but it’s entirely possible that more necessary or entertaining rules will occur to me later, and those will be added to this page on an as-needed basis.

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