Zero Sum Game
This is my 900th blog entry - if only it counted towards my word count. I’ve been editing, which is a zero-sum game as far as Total Lifetime Word Count goes. The TLWC is hovering around 500,000, not counting non-fiction or filk. I’m halfway to that elusive first mill.
May 6th, 2004 at 1:20 pm
Hiya,
Not to burst you’re bubble or anything. But when ‘they’ refer to that elusive first million. They are talking about money. :)
Good luck in either case.
May 6th, 2004 at 11:48 pm
Sorry to burst your bubble, but note that “first mill” is a link to another entry about David Gerrold’s writing book Worlds of Wonder in which he says, “the first million words are for practice.”
A wildly successful fiction writer is someone who can pay the rent without getting a day job. Making a million dollars at it is a pipe dream - you may as well play the lottery or go into a line of work where the first million refers to money.