For the past 12 months, Iâve been writing a monthly newsletter on the 21st of every month. I did one last month, March 21st, talking about how I didnât eat for 5 days (I started refeeding on day 7). But on April 21st, I didnât publish one.
13 months ago, on March 17th of 2024, I wrote the following sentence:
Even once I get to 100,000 words, I donât think Iâll feel âdone.â
In April of 2024, I got a bit more ambitious, and wrote out a 14 year plan:
Write 30,000 words a month. [360,000 words a year]
Then, in June, I wrote my 5 year plan, and said:
I expect to hit 500,000 words and maybe 250 articles by the end of the year.
Finally, I got serious. In July, I wrote âbefore I die.â
I have hit 360k words total, and it doesnât even feel that cool anymore. Maybe once I hit 500k it will feel cool. My big goal is a million words.
This was it. The final goal. The final frontier.
One million words.
How did I do it? Am I still sane? Was I ever sane? Why am I asking all these questions? Is the answer behind this paywall? Are you going to pay me money to delve deeply into my mind and learn all of my secrets? Thereâs only one way to find outâŚ