Allrighters’ millionth word written on Sunday 26th January 2014.

Subject to audit – you must be joking, the millionth draft word is WONDERFUL.

We should have been out on a nine mile day walk today, but not in today’s torrential rain and cold wind.

Watched Rafael Nadal being beaten by Stanislas Wawrinka in the Australian Tennis Open instead.

England fail again in one day cricket.

What is the scale of a million words?

Time taken 1,336 days instead of the original target of 1,096 days.

Average writing 748.5 words a day … a bit of a fade from a target of 750 words a day. Exactly 2,000 words short, at the end due to other family celebrations this month

114,048 words of overheads – technical matters, reviews, different book endings, web site writing, marketing, blogging and progress monitoring. Higher than the 10% I set myself.

The rest 895,952 draft words to be converted into some 15 to 20 long books where starts and endings have been written and many middles and 15 short fiction and non fiction books. Completion will require at least another 250,000 words to fill in the gaps.

How does it feel?

Strange almost an anticlimax … until I get some fizzy alcohol inside me!

Ahh ….

That’s better!

In physical terms if Ywnwab! Is 20,000 words ( not all our own) then a million of Allrighters’ draft words would represent 50 copies of Ywnwab! or a pile of books some 35cm high weighing 10 kilograms or ten standard bags of sugar. There are ten copies on my lap in the picture. So a long way to go if I decide to, and can afford to, print all the final books. I am sure I could find 35cm of shelf space … a disappointingly small amount of shelf space compared to all the other books I have scattered around the house.

E books take up much less room! A million = 100,000 KB in word format and 250,000 KB in Kindle format.

Alfred Wainwright, another Municipal Turf Accountant planned all his Lake District Walk Books over many years with his walks and writing completed on time. I am only 240 days late after 31/5/13!

I now have many more close friends in fantasy with my main characters Henry, Henrietta, Alexander, Florence, Kathrynne, Jeccica, Ann, Leonid, Fleur, Douglas, Sabrina, Freddie, Khris, Martin, Richard, Wil, Harry, Victor,. Celestic, Maladi, The Queen of Chimeristan, Dr Moriati, Mrs Kustard and the Prim Lady.

Plus in real life all those writers and poets I have met or been in contact with around the world.

Thanks to you all for your encouragement and support.

Douglas of the Allrighters.

[Note - this piece to be the entry for 26^th January in Little Room Reading – Michaelmas to Lady Day to be published in time for Christmas 2014. In the book I have 90 slots to fill so if you wish to contribute a 300 word story please let me know.]