Yes. I’m going to write a million words.

But a million words is a pretty abstract concept.  How else might it be expressed?

A million words is :

133 Short Stories
80 Novelettes
27 Novellas
25 Novels

Formal English speaking is usually paced between 100 to 120 words per minute. Therefore, speaking a million words in nonstop conversation would take around

9091 minutes, otherwise known as
151 hours, or
6.3 days.

Of course, nobody can talk for that long without stopping. :P

Just how many is a million?

If you were to take a million 4″ x 7″ index cards and put one word on each, laying them with their long sides together, they would stretch for 111,111 yards, or 63 miles.

If the cards were a quarter-inch thick, then a stack of them would be almost 4 miles high.

The stack would weigh around 1800 kilograms, or almost 4000 pounds. Practically two tons!

Those words would make a very heavy statement. :)

One million words in one year translates into around :

83333 words per month
19231 words per week
2740 words per day
171 words per waking hour (assuming 16 waking hours)
2.85 words per minute, or
1 word per 21 seconds.

And that’s without including time for meals, breaks, and the bathroom! :)