Tuesday, March 11, 2025

math Poetic Asides

 

Lots of Words

 

A poem a day, for 20 years

Average about 100 words a poem

That’s about 730,000 words.

 

About 20 novellas in various stages of completions

Roughly 800,000 words.

 

Five to ten devotions a month for twelve years

Say about 7 times 144 times 250 words

About 252, 000 words.

 

Total 1,782,000 words

 

Plus an inestimable amount of words

in short stories, articles, and journaling.

Not to mention all of the rewrites.

 

I don’t think I’d be wrong in saying

that writing is my profession,

even if few have ever heard of me

and I would make more working at Wal-Mart.

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