1 million word essay

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It is always very hard to conceive very large numbers . Big amounts of time or space are subjective concepts. We don’t use rationality to get around their quantities, instead, we use feeling. We can feel how very tall a building is or how very large a lake can be.

A large quantity of words might be even tougher to surround in one’s mind. Let’s get beside those abstract ideas and let’s try to answer the following question : What does 1 million words really look like?

As a kid I’ve always asked myself how long it would take me to read 1 million words? How thick a book should be to gather all these characters into one single object. In this article I will try answering those childhood questions.

We will be using a Lorem Ipsum base text. Lorem Ipsum is a very famous latin piece of text used by designers as a placeholder text to fill design mockups. If you want to learn more about the origins of Lorem Ipsum you should dig into De finibus bonorum et malorum of Cicero .

Statistics generated by 1’000’000 words text.

The total version of the Lorem Ipsum text is 1’374 words long. In order to get to a million words it needs to be duplicated 727,80 times . Also for the experiment we will be using Arial, a font-size of 12 pts, and A4 sheets of paper. Here are the results :

Approximately 6’830’395 characters (with spaces) or 5’830’394 characters (no spaces)

Approximately 80’786 lines, on A4 paper using Arial 12.

Approximately 1’796 A4 pages or 1’120’165 cm2 of printed area using Arial 12.

Using Gutemberg’s Spine Width Calculator our 1’796 pages long book would have a spine width of 73 mm with a soft cover.

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A Million Words or Fewer: Deborah Bova’s Tried-and-True Method for Learning from Parents at the Start of Distance Learning

August 12, 2020 By Dave Stuart Jr. 8 Comments

So you're teaching from a distance and you'd like a non-invasive (dare I say pleasant?) method for gaining insight into your students, their homes, and their families. The best, most sensitive, most inviting method I know for this kind of thing is Deborah Bova's Million Words activity. While this assignment's utility is not limited to distance teaching scenarios — as I'll share, Million Words has a long history on the teacher interwebs — I do find it uniquely helpful during these times.

What follows is an examination of what the Million Words activity is, why I think it works so well, and the specific letter I'm using to introduce the assignment to parents this school year.

Deborah Bova's “Million Words or Less” start of the year assignment

The story goes that back in 2003, teacher Deborah Bova introduced something she called the Million Word essay to colleagues on a now-inactive listserv at MiddleWeb. Though the listserv doesn't exist anymore, this PDF of the conversation Bova started does .

(My colleagues in their lower-twenties right now are thinking, “Wait, what's a listserv?”)

(Actually, I'm thinking that, too.)

Here's what Deb posted:

The post was viewed thousands of times, and Bova's assignment idea has been used in countless settings around the United States and the world. As the listserv discussion quickly demonstrated, it works very well.

Here's why I think the Million Words activity is so effective:

It's simple. Quick to explain, quick to understand. Parents aren't scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do.
It's invitational. Parents are being invited to play a key role in introducing their child to their teacher or teaching team. They are free to write as little or as much as they can.
It's far more humanizing than a survey. The “data” something like this elicits will humanize students for us like no survey ever can. (Now keep in mind that there is information best collected through surveys — see Practice 2.1 in this post on humanizing online distance learning environments .)
It demonstrates the school-home partnership rather than paying lip service to it. I love that Bova communicates to families that this activity will help the teaching team best serve the child. That's right on.
It's a chance to keep ourselves humble. As I've said, few teacher traits are as predictive of greatness as humble-boldness . When I get a stack of Million Words responses back and I sit down to them with a cup of coffee, I'm training my heart to marvel at the weight of my students and the trust implied in their coming to be with me each day, whether remotely or in person. Reading letters like these helps me to remember that I'm not Luke Skywalker in the story of my students' lives but am rather someone more like C-3PO or R2D2. I'm a side character in their quests, not the protagonist.
And for distance teaching specifically, this activity is bound to give me high-use information that I need. If my students have specific life circumstances that will prove an obstacle to distance learning, I need to know. If they've experienced trauma during the pandemic, I need to know. If they or their families are nervous or troubled or overwhelmed or angry about the transition to distance learning, I need to know. Such information readies me to be the kind of warmly demanding (v. perversely compassionate ) teacher that equitable school outcomes require. (For more on warm-demander pedagogy, see Practice 3 in this post .)

Here's how I'm introducing the million words activity to my students' families this year

Though there are countless examples on the web of letters introducing this activity to parents, I opened up a fresh doc and kept it simple.

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During a recent webinar for teachers on building relationships from a distance, a colleague asked, “How can we sensitively learn of any negative circumstances that our students have encountered during the pandemic so that our teaching can be more informed?” This letter was the first thing that came to my mind. It's not going to get all the info on our students — and that is just as it should be. As a teacher, I am not entitled to all the info. But I certainly am deepened by knowing what my students' parents or guardians are willing to share.

I hope this helps. Ask any specific questions in the comments.

Best to you,

* Thank you to my Cedar Springs colleagues Eddie Johns, Kseniya Themm, and Erica Beaton for sharing aspects of the Million Words activity with me.

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Annette Baity says

August 14, 2020 at 2:01 am

This is great! However, I teach at a mostly low-socio economic, spanish speaking school community. Most have a very limited education and very limited knowledge of technology. If I ask them to email me, they will say, they don’t know how. So I find that verbal communication is the best.

I will call each students parent/guardian and basically ask them to tell me anything they want about their child, and if there is anything I should know that might hinder their child’s access to their education during distance learning.

Thank you, though! This is great!

Dave Stuart Jr. says

August 14, 2020 at 7:59 am

Annette, I love that you are attentive to the constraints you work within and to the needs of your students’ families. How fortunate they are to have you in their life. Best to you and thank you for writing.

Melissa Frame says

August 14, 2020 at 8:37 am

I have used this assignment in the past. This year, with remote learning, I am also thinking about including an option for parents to leave a Flipgrid video for me instead. I think it would be cool for them to try it out and it might open up some interesting communication at home.

August 14, 2020 at 8:39 am

Melissa, I love the Flipgrid idea!

Sherrin Gorman says

August 18, 2020 at 6:58 pm

Love this and thank you! I’m an EL Interventionist with many Spanish speaking families. It would be helpful if there is a Spanish version of your letter (or something similar) somewhere. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

August 24, 2020 at 9:20 am

Hi Sherrin! I love that idea — my problem is that if I translate that thing into Spanish it’ll be pretty terrible. I would recommend finding a generous and fluently bilingual person to translate it for you, adjusting as needed for your own personality and charm. 🙂

Susie Highley says

August 22, 2020 at 12:33 pm

I was on the same team with Debbie Bova when we used this in the 90s. Here’s another piece about it. https://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev080.shtml

Susie, that’s amazing! Thank you to both of you for this work 🙂

1 Million Word Essay – Ready to Copy and Paste

Have you ever tried to fathom the magnitude of one million words? The sheer quantity can be mind-boggling, leaving us struggling to comprehend its scale. In this article, we will delve into the world of words and attempt to answer the question: What does 1 million words actually look like?

As a child, I often pondered how long it would take to read a million words. How thick would a book need to be to encapsulate such a vast collection of characters? Join me on this journey as we explore the answers to these childhood curiosities.

Lorem Ipsum: The Base Text

To aid our exploration, we will be using Lorem Ipsum, a widely recognized Latin placeholder text commonly employed by designers to fill design mockups. If you’re interested in delving into the origins of Lorem Ipsum, I recommend exploring Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum .

Statistics Generated by a 1 Million Word Text

Before we can visualize the enormity of 1 million words, let’s examine some statistics based on the Lorem Ipsum text.

Number of Characters

A 1 million word text consists of approximately 6,830,395 characters, including spaces, or 5,830,394 characters without spaces.

Number of Lines

Within a 1 million word text, you can expect to find approximately 80,786 lines. These calculations assume the use of Arial font, size 12, on A4 paper.

Number of Pages

When printed on A4 paper with Arial font, size 12, a 1 million word text occupies roughly 1,796 pages or covers an area of 1,120,165 cm².

Thickness of a Book’s Spine

Utilizing Gutenberg’s Spine Width Calculator, we can determine that a book containing 1 million words and spanning 1,796 pages would have a spine width of approximately 73 mm if it had a soft cover.

Exploring the Magnitude of 1 Million Words

Now that we have examined the statistics, let’s delve deeper into the concept of 1 million words. It’s essential to contextualize this vast quantity to better comprehend its significance.

1. Impact on Reading Time

Reading 1 million words is no small feat. To put it into perspective, consider the following:

On average, an adult reads at a pace of around 200 to 300 words per minute.
If we assume a conservative reading speed of 200 words per minute, it would take approximately 5,000 minutes to read 1 million words.
This translates to roughly 83 hours and 20 minutes of continuous reading.
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The First Million Words Are Practice

by Kevin Tumlinson | Jun 1, 2017 | Author How-To & Mindset | 0 comments

David Eddings, an American novelist who was most famous for his epic fantasy books, once gave the following advice about the practice to new writers :

“My advice to the young writer is likely to be unpalatable in an age of instant successes and meteoric falls. I tell the neophyte: Write a million words–the absolute best you can write, then throw it all away and bravely turn your back on what you have written. At that point, you’re ready to begin.”

That same advice has come from a number of other sources—it’s tough to determine just who said it first. Some point to legends such as Ray Bradbury or Jerry Pournelle, both of whom famously advised that new writers should write a million words before considering themselves ready to take up the cause.

Regardless of who said it first, the sentiment always seems to come down to one thing: “Your first million words don’t count.”

But that seems a bit negative. Because of course they count. They’re the words you use to hone your craft, to learn the strategies you need to do the work and do it well. So to put it in more positive, less scary terms: Your first million words are practice.

PRACTICE MAKES SORTA PERFECT

We should probably clear something up, before it becomes a thing: There will always be room for you to grow and improve as a writer.

One of the mistakes that a lot of talented writers make is relying entirely on their talent rather than nurturing their skill. It’s a subtle difference—talents versus skills—but it’s important to think about and understand.

Talent, you’re born with. At least, that’s the common perception. It seems that some people spring forth from the womb with all the ability they need to become great in a field.

Skill takes effort. You develop skill by putting in the hours. Skill comes at the cost of tears and sweat and hours.

Of course, there’s nothing that says you can’t have both talent and skill. In fact, that’s exactly the sort of combination we should all aim for.

In her book ‘Mindset,’ Carol Dweck uses John McEnroe as an example of a fixed mindset, reliant more on his talent than on training:

“[McEnroe] believed that talent was all. He did not love to learn. He did not thrive on challenges; when the going got rough, he often folded. As a result, by his own admission, he did not fulfill his potential.”

Of course, McEnroe’s talent was more than adequate to make him the number one tennis player in the world—he just wasn’t particularly happy about it. Screaming at officials, throwing rackets, melting down into tantrums—when his talent failed him, he reacted as if his worth were taken away. And, since he was entirely reliant on talent to deliver him to success, he was kind of right. If your entire sense of self-worth is tied to succeeding naturally, without effort, and you find yourself failing, you immediately start questioning everything you ever knew about yourself. You start to worry that this thing you relied on—this ability that you didn’t have to work to earn—may have left you as easily as it arrived. And now you’re done. Your life, your career, everything that made you who you are is over.

That’s how it can seem.

Dweck further wrote that our culture puts a much higher value on talent than it does on effort—as if the fact that we have to sometimes put effort into improving our skills means that we have failed, that we aren’t worthy of success. If we must practice, then we don’t have natural talent, and maybe this thing we want isn’t right for us. We should give up and move on.

A lot of authors have walked from the business because they felt they weren’t ‘cut out’ for it, and at the heart of that decision is this idea of talent being more valuable than effort. That’s a sad state—because even the greats in this industry have had to pay their dues, to put in those million words so that they can rely more on experience and expertise than talent and a muse.

EVERY DAY IS THE PRICE YOU PAY

The mistake, of course, would be to go to the other extreme, and assume that because you have put in the time to nurture your talent into a reliable skill, you’re done. Objective complete. Achievement unlocked.

The reality is that even Stephen King comes back to the keyboard every single day, keeping the saw sharp by putting in the time and the words.

That’s really what those first million words are all about. They’re a measure of the time you’ve spent doing the reps. They are a gauge for how much effort you’re putting into honing your craft. They’re a proving ground for ideas, to help you find your voice and your style, and essentially define yourself as a writer.

Those first million words give you experience, which gives you strategies to use when you’re stuck, when you’re blocked, when you don’t quite know where to take things. Coming back to the writing, every single day, gives you momentum and toughens your writing hide.

1O STEPS TO YOUR MILLION WORDS

The point here isn’t a literal “one million words.” It’s more about doing something every day to improve yourself as a writer. Nothing (and I mean nothing) improves your craft and your discipline like actually writing.

Here’s an actionable approach to developing a daily writing habit and improving your craft. Think of it as 10 steps to your million words:

Commit to writing every day , and tell people about that commitment. Make it a group of people who will hound you mercilessly if you don’t do what you said you’d do. We call this ‘accountability,’ and it helps. We’re far less likely to walk away from something when we know we’ll be letting someone else down.
Set a daily word target . If you’re just starting, and have a tough time getting things moving, set the goal low to start, with the idea that you can push your limits and grow over time. You don’t have to write 5,000 words per day. You can write 500. Or 250. Or ten. As long as you sit down every day and write to your target, you’ll make progress, and you’ll improve.
Treat all writing as practice. Emails, text messages, blog posts, Facebook updates—if it involves words, then put the energy and effort into making them good words. Check spelling, fix typos, and put thought into what you’re trying to say, and the best way to say it. If you get into the habit of treating every word that leaves your fingertips as practice for improving your talent into a skill, you’ll find yourself immersed in the culture of writing—and immersion is the best way to become fluent in anything.
Keep a journal. I recommend an app called Day One , if you like to keep a journal on your laptop or phone. It’s Mac-only, but you can find equivalents for Android and Windows (Evernote is a good one, though it isn’t strictly a journaling app). Or you could do it the ‘old fashioned way,’ which is still a preferred method by millions of people worldwide: Write in a notebook. I love Moleskine notebooks for this purpose. Just make sure you’re coming back to the journal frequently (daily, if you can), and treating everything you write as practice (see above).
Up your word target. If you’ve been consistently hitting your 500 word target every day for a month, it’s time to push yourself. Add another 250 words. And if you hit that new target for a month, add another 250. Or five hundred. Or a thousand. Keep adding words until you really have to sweat to do it every day, and press on that as long as you can, until the new number feels natural.
Periodically push your limits. A few years back I challenged myself to write 60K words in one day. I did it. It hurt. I won’t be doing that again. But the resulting book ( Evergreen ) ended up being a fan favorite. More importantly, pushing myself that hard helped me reset my limits, and my base level as well. Now that I knew what I was capable of, I could feel comfortable raising my daily word count. The lesson: Once you get to a comfort zone with your daily writing, set a challenge for yourself, and complete it. You don’t have to go to the extreme of writing a book in a day, but you might decide to double your word count one day, or set an ‘impossible’ goal and beat it. Later, you could decide to write a book in five days, or three, or anything else you might find challenging. Push your limits so you can redefine them.
Read widely. Writers read. These two skills are so intertwined, they’re inseparable. The problem is, we often lock onto a particular type of book, or only read from a certain genre or category. But writers who are determined to really bump up their craft always read widely. Sometimes good exposure can be its own practice. Along with the epic fantasy or romance novels you love, seed in some science fiction, a few biographies, plenty of history, and of course some how-to books. Really, just read everything you can get your hands on. It’s about more than leisure. The more widely you read, the more mental grist you have for the mill. Inspiration comes from the oddest places. Plus, as you read, you’ll experience how other writers use the language, as well as their talent and skill, and you’ll pick up on the rhythms of their craft, growing as you go.
Track everything. Use a tool like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to track how many words you write per day, when your start and stop times are, where you were writing, and any other details you can include. You should also track what you’re reading, how many pages you get through, and what you’re learning as you go. Tracking these things benefits you because it makes you think critically about writing. It gets you in the habit of examining what you write and what you read, evaluating it for how it helps you grow. You can also do this as part of the daily journaling we looked at above. Keep track of your relationship with the written language, and gauge how you grow.
Talk to other authors (a lot). Nothing will keep your mind on the game like talking to the players as often as possible. Back in ‘the day’ this was kind of tough. You had to join writer groups, and set aside a few hours a month to attend and sit in on readings and discussions. You had coffee, sure, but at what price? We writers tend to be introverts, after all. Peopleing is difficult. But now, with Facebook groups and other online communities, it’s easy to keep up a near-constant conversation about the writer biz. Join these groups. Talk about writing, about the challenges you face and the successes you’ve had. Get into encouraging every writer you connect with, and you’ll soon find them encouraging you. This is about accountability, but also about learning from exposure. And, in some part, it’s about keeping up with your peers. You’ll find it easier to hit a daily word target if you’re hearing about this kind of success from people you know and trust and admire, every day.
Define your why. There’s a phrase used by special forces and other military types that espouses a life philosophy: “Embrace the suck.” Basically, there’s no escaping the horrible and uncomfortable and painful parts of life. So we just have to accept them and get on with our day. But we can endure things that suck for much longer stretches of time when we know why we’re doing them. Before you write another word, spend a few minutes thinking about and deciding on the “why” of your writing. What drives you? What is powerful enough that it makes you want to sit down and spend hours, days, weeks, months, even years cloistered away from friends and family, missing out on popular TV shows and movies, letting your Summer tan disappear into the pasty white porcelain of your skin, all so you can put words on the page? When you know what that is, write it down somewhere, and refer to it every day. That’s the biggest motivation you’re ever going to have. It can get you to come back to the keyboard every day, even when it’s the least fun thing you can imagine. Embrace the suck. Define your why, and you can define your career and your life.

GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT

No one is harder on themselves than an author. We criticize ourselves far more than any internet troll or bad review ever could. Part of that comes from the fact that our work is so solitary, most of the time. We get into our own heads, we forget that there are people who actually do love and support us, and we tend to obsess over all the flaws and errors that somehow ‘prove’ we’re not good enough.

We’re also inundated with pearls of wisdom and free advice and sage words about what we should or should not be doing, or how we should or should not think of our work. Case in point: “The First Million Words Are Practice.”

Here’s the reality: It’s not the first million words. It’s not the first billion, either. The reality is, all the words are practice.

Writing is a lot like the game Othello. It takes a moment to learn, but a lifetime to master.

The thing is, while you’re learning you need to give yourself credit for where you are and how you got there.

First, just having the courage to sit down and start doing this work is something to celebrate. Seriously—the fact you’ve even read to the end of this post is something you might want to write about in that journal we mentioned. It shows a willingness to improve yourself, which means you had to at least acknowledge that you might need improvement. Way to go!

Second, no matter what level you perceive yourself to be on, as a writer, you are, every day, advancing above that level, just by writing. Experience is its own practice. Your victories are worth celebrating. Your skill is ever-improving. You are getting better at this, so smile.

Adopt what Carol Dweck refers to as a ‘growth mindset.’ See every challenge as a chance to grow and improve, rather than a sign that you aren’t talented enough. And as for those first million words, consider them practice, and then decide that the next million will be practice, too. Determine for yourself that you can and will grow in this, and then go out and find ways to make that growth happen.

You’re an amazing writer. This is going to be right in your wheelhouse.

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1 Million Word Writing Challenge 2020!

Last Updated on May 16, 2023 by Michael Brockbank

Keeping motivated to write is challenging for a lot of freelancers and bloggers out there. In fact, I know I suffer from a lack of effort. That’s why I’ve decided to get back into the swing of things with a 1 million word writing challenge for 2020.

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Why 1 Million Words?

Although one million sounds like a lot, it’s actually a decent place to start. Especially given how the number in its entirety is broken up over a 366-day year.

Don’t forget, 2020 is a leap year and adds an extra day to meet this goal.

In reality, I used to do more than one million words. In fact, it was my goal to have 10,000 words per day. And to put that into perspective, this was aiming more for 2.5 million.

But, I’ve severely lacked in my productivity over the past few years. And to get everything back on track, I’m starting 2020 off with aiming for one million.

This Writing Challenge in 2020 is Doable!

Instead of looking at the entire one million as a whole, it’s better to break it up into daily goals. This means you would only have to write 3,817 words per workday. And given how I could easily do a third of that in an hour, I don’t see how it could be too much.

And if you go even further and break it down in an 8-hour workday, that’s only 477 words per hour. I can do this in Textbroker inside 20 minutes.

Now, when I say workday, I mean the regular five-day workweek that is a traditional job. If you were to focus more on the entire 366-day year, you’d only need 2,733 words.

For me, this is about two blog posts per day according to my average length of the articles I write.

What is the Purpose of a Writing Challenge in 2020?

If 2019 has taught me anything, it’s to quit procrastinating. And this encompasses everything in my life. In essence, I am trying to rebuild who I am, both as a freelancer and as a person.

Part of this writing challenge in 2020 is to remind me of who I am.

Not only that but pushing yourself to do more will only provide benefits.

Keeping Motivated for Productivity

After the past few months, I need to find something that motivates me. Proving how one million words in a year is easily possible is something that I’ve wanted to do for quite some time.

Not only does it help me create more content for the blog, but it’s also something I can use for video content on the YouTube channel.

For me, I tend to perform far better if I have a solid goal to reach. And I know I can do it…I’ve done it many times before.

Making More Money

No matter how you slice it, being more productive is going to lead to making more money. This is true whether you spend the entire one million words on Textbroker or put in the effort to publish novels.

Even spending an hour writing content for Hub Pages can bring in a few bucks here and there if you write something people want to read.

When you think about it, anything that has your name on it in terms of content is going to financially benefit you. Even if it’s just a blog post, every article you create either boosts your reputation (to make more money) or flat out pays you.

Promoting Yourself as a Writer

Like I mentioned a second ago, content helps promote yourself as a writer. And the more experienced you are, the more likely you’ll land those high-paying jobs.

So, think of a part of the one million words as marketing for your talents.

Grammar, typing speed and even research capabilities are all going to improve when you put in the effort.

How Can I Write 1 Million Words in 2020?

Luckily, there are a vast number of ways to write content on the Internet. There’s really no shortage of what you can do as long as you put in the effort to look.

Do Private Client Work or Work with Content Mills

One of the more obvious ways to reach one million words is to do more client work. You can do projects from private clients or jobs listed in content mills such as Textbroker.

In fact, I hit well over a million words using nothing but Textbroker for several years. You just need to keep yourself writing without taking too many breaks.

In 2017, I was writing about 5,000 words per day spread out between my private clients and Textbroker teams. So, I know it’s possible.

Get More Into Blogging

Blogging is a good way to promote yourself as a professional. And if you monetize your site in some fashion, you can also make a few bucks on the side for your trouble.

I know from experience that blogging on a regular basis can lead to all kinds of financial benefits.

So, part of my writing challenge in 2020 is going to include creating more content than I did in 2019. Which isn’t hard considering my paltry performance this year.

Write Your Own Novel or Stories to Publish

You don’t have to focus purely on the freelancing part of writing. Why not be more creative and publish something that might declare yourself an author?

Even if you don’t plan on aiming for the New York Times Best Seller List, being creative and writing things like fan fiction only helps to improve your overall skills.

For me, I am aiming at becoming a published author in 2020. And yes, this means I will be finishing, “ VII ” and working on other projects.

Use Other Blogging Platforms

What if you want to blog but don’t have a website? Well, you can either create a free blog at something like WordPress.com, or you could write for sites like Hub Pages or Vocal Media.

You can use these systems to reach the one million word count while generating a bit of income on the side.

At any rate, you can share those posts with potential clients, employers or on your resume.

Create YouTube Video Scripts for Yourself

If you have a YouTube channel , you can always write a script to follow. In fact, there are a lot of YouTubers who use their own scripts when creating a video.

I do on certain videos I create for Colorado Plays.

How does this count towards your one million word goal? Because you’re still using the written content to accentuate the video. The only difference between YouTube and a blog is that one is video while the other is text.

What Can I Do to Track My Writing Challenge in 2020?

OK…now that we’ve established some of the ways to rack up the word count, what can we do to keep track? After all, having a good way to keep score will keep your head in the game.

Since you’re in competition with yourself, you need viable means to monitor progress throughout the year. You don’t want to just give up because you’re no longer motivated. Keeping score for yourself gives you something to work towards.

Use a Spreadsheet to Track Your Progress

Since 2012, I’ve kept track of words I create through the use of spreadsheets. Over the years, the sheets themselves have taken on various looks and layouts. But the bottom line is that they are still used to this day to remind me of how productive I am.

I’m not saying that you have to use a spreadsheet in order to reach a one million word writing challenge in 2020. However, they do significantly help.

In fact, mine is set up to give me visual and text cues regarding my progress. For instance, if I spend less than two hours writing in a single day, my spreadsheet displays, “What the hell was that?”

Of course, you don’t really need to go as elaborate as I have with a spreadsheet. I just find it fun to monitor such things.

Promote it on Social Media

One of the reasons why I try to promote things on social media is to keep myself motivated to keep writing. It’s one of the uses of my YouTube channel, actually. I want to be seen as an expert in my field.

For this writing challenge, I am on the fence for posting my progress either weekly or monthly. Even if no one sees the post, I’ll know it’s out there in the ether of the Internet to remind me to get up and get going.

Part of promoting my progress is going to include YouTube. Since I have a growing audience, I need to show them how one million words is possible and what can happen over the span of the year.

Connect with Me to Keep Motivated

If you choose to follow my writing challenge for 2020, why not keep in touch with me through social media? I’m not averse to creating a group of us who want to take our writing craft to a whole new level.

In reality, I am still toying with the idea of adding a social element to WriterSanctuary. A place where we can share, encourage and motivate each other.

In any event, feel free to contact me if you want to motivate yourself to make 2020 a banner year for writing.

It Must be Visible Online

And lastly, all of the content created in this writing challenge needs to be easily found online. Well, with the exception of writing for content mill clients. That’s because you have no idea if they’ll even publish it.

So, if you want to be creative, use systems like Wattpad so that your content is easily seen by an audience.

Otherwise, you’ll miss out on half of the purpose of the challenge…which is to promote yourself as a writer or author. Besides, I find it motivating to know that at least one person I don’t know will read the content.

This Writing Challenge for 2020 IS Possible…

You only need 3,817 words Monday through Friday to reach one million words by the end of the year. If you write for eight hours per day, this is only 478 words per hour.

It’s not impossible .

The only thing from keeping you from accomplishing the writing challenge for 2020 is a lack of effort. Prove to yourself you can do it.

Oh, and by the way, this post would have counted for 1,801 words and only took me an hour and 15 minutes to write…

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1,000,000 Words

The other day I was talking to my partner, Todd, as we commuted on the MBTA (red line represent!) He asked how many books I’d written. I began the sophisticated process of counting on my hands. Nine. I’ve written (not had published, mind you) nine books. Each book takes at least 100,000 words because I tend to overwrite, and then edit with a machete in later drafts. I did the math. 9 books x 100,000 = 900,000 words. Add in all my short stories, the teenage poems, the essays, the screenplay, and the started-but-never-finished novels. Damn. I have written a million words. Well over a million words.

What does this mean? Monetarily speaking, not much. In fact, if I calculated what I’ve been paid divided by the number of all the words that I’ve written I’d quit because it makes no financial sense whatsoever. But let’s put money aside. Having written over a million words means that I am, by nature, a lot less attached to any small percentage of those words, and that’s a good thing. It means I am willing to put aside projects that aren’t working. It means that I choose to write and rewrite until the words in each book are the best words for that book. It means that if a book is rejected, I don’t wail and gnash my teeth forever. Because I’ve got another book in me. I have so many books in me; I am the Sybil of books. [1]

One million words means I write on days I’d rather read or bake or clean the hair trap in the bathtub because I’m stuck on a plot point or I am tired of thinking of physical gestures that aren’t smiles or nods or shrugs. But I power through because one million words means I’ve developed a discipline not unlike that of a professional athlete. That’s right. I’m the Michael Jordan of words.

One million words also means I sometimes feel as though the well has run dry and it is all I can do but grunt when asked about my day. The words, they have been exhausted. I have none. But then I sleep and I find, when I wake, the well has been replenished. The words are back. It feels like magic some days.

One million words means I can see to two million words and three million words. Things I wouldn’t have dreamed attainable seem achievable. One million words means that the little curly-haired moppet who once stood in the East Bridgewater Public School library, clutching a Narnia book to her chest, and thinking to herself, some day I’ll write books , that little girl wasn’t wrong. She did it. She wrote books that are in libraries. She’ll write more books. Who knows? Maybe someday I’ll inspire a little girl to write books. Anything seems possible, on this side of one million words.

[1] Sybil was the pseudonym of a woman undergoing treatment for multiple personality disorder. The story was told in a non-fiction book and then made into two films.

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Let's Stop Talking About The '30 Million Word Gap'

Anya Kamenetz

The findings discussed in Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children have been cited more than 8,000 times, according to Google Scholar. Chelsea Beck/NPR hide caption

The findings discussed in Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children have been cited more than 8,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

Did you know that kids growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words by age 3? Chances are, if you're the type of person who reads a newspaper or listens to NPR, you've heard that statistic before .

Since 1992, this finding has, with unusual power, shaped the way educators, parents and policymakers think about educating poor children.

But did you know that the number comes from just one study, begun almost 40 years ago, with just 42 families? That some people argue it contained a built-in racial bias? Or that others, including the authors of a new study that calls itself a "failed replication," say it's just wrong?

NPR talked to eight researchers to explore this controversy. All of them say they share the goal of helping poor kids achieve their highest potential in school.

But on the issue of how to define either the problem, or the solution, there are, well, very big gaps.

With all that in mind, here are six things to know about the 30 million word gap.

1. The original study had just 42 families.

During the War on Poverty in the 1960s, Betty Hart, a former preschool teacher, entered graduate school in child psychology at the University of Kansas, working with Todd Risley as her adviser.

The two began their research with preschool students in the low-income Juniper Gardens section of Kansas City, Kan., explains Dale Walker of the University of Kansas, who counts Hart as a colleague and mentor. "They definitely worked out of their personal concern and experience with young children."

Seeing differences between poor and middle-class children by the age of 3, Hart and Risley decided to look for roots even earlier in children's lives.

Beginning in 1982, they followed up on birth announcements in the newspaper to recruit families with infants as research subjects.

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They eventually chose 42 families at four levels of income and education, from "welfare" to "professional class." All of the "welfare" families and 7 out of 10 of the "working class" families were black, while 9 out of 10 of the "professional" families were white — this will be important later.

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Starting when the babies were 7 to 9 months old, the researchers visited each house for one hour, once a month, for 2 1/2 years. They showed up generally in the late afternoon, with a cassette recorder, a clipboard and a stopwatch and tried to fade into the background. They were there to record the number of words spoken around the children, as well as the quality and types of interaction (for example, a question versus a command), and the growth in words produced by the children themselves.

2. The study has been cited over 8,000 times.

After 1,200 hours of recordings were collected, the real work began. Transcribing and checking each moment, with their elaborate system of coding, took 16 hours for every hour of tape, Dale Walker explains.

Hart and Risley's study wasn't published until 1992, while their book, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, came out in 1995.

From there, it really caught fire. These findings have been cited more than 8,000 times, according to Google Scholar. The book remains one of its publisher's bestsellers more than 20 years later. There is a national research network of over 150 scholars aligned with Hart and Risley and focusing on young children's home environment.

And the impact of this work spread far beyond the ivory tower. "It's had enormous policy implications," says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a developmental psychologist at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Something about that figure, 30 million words, held people's attention. Not only was it big, it seemed actionable.

Speech — unlike books or housing or health care — is free. If we could somehow get poor parents to speak to their children more, could it make a huge difference in fixing stubborn inequities in society?

The "word gap" drove expanded federal investments in Head Start and Early Head Start. Hart and Risley's work inspired early intervention programs, including the citywide effort Providence Talks in Rhode Island, the Boston-based Reach Out and Read, and the Clinton Foundation's Too Small To Fail.

Both researchers are now deceased. But in Kansas City, where it all began, Dale Walker and others work on research and interventions at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project.

3. Thirty million words is probably an exaggeration. Maybe the gap is 4 million. Maybe it's even smaller.

That eye-popping figure is one of the reasons the study has been so sticky over time. But newer studies have found very different numbers.

Since Hart and Risley's study was published, critics have taken issue with how the data was collected and interpreted.

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Simple number, complex impact: how many words has a child heard.

"Their study is commendable in many ways, but they just got it wrong," says Paul Nation, an expert in vocabulary acquisition at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Nation primarily takes issue with the idea that you can estimate vocabulary growth from small samples of speech, particularly when the samples don't contain the same number of words.

He is one of many to have pointed out that the low-income families in their sample may have been intimidated into silence by the presence of a researcher, especially someone of another race. Educated parents, though, might be more likely to show off by talking more when an observer is present.

Modern technology can get around this observer effect. A nonprofit called LENA manufactures a tiny digital recording device that can be worn by children as young as 2 months old. Software then estimates speech and turn-taking.

While not invisible, it's a lot less intrusive than having a person sitting in the room. Directly inspired by Hart and Risley, LENA is used in school-based and home-based interventions dedicated to closing the word gap in more than 20 states.

Using LENA, scientists published a near-replication of the Hart and Risley study in 2017, only this study had 329 families, nearly 8 times more, and 49,765 hours of recording, from children 2 months to 4 years.

Their conclusion? The "word gap" between high-income and low-income groups was about 4 million by the time the children turned 4, not 30 million by age 3. Only if you compared the most talkative 2 percent with quietest 2 percent of families did you get a gap nearly as wide as Hart and Risley's, says LENA's senior director of research, Jill Gilkerson.

Another just-published study calls itself a "failed replication" of Hart and Risley.

The researchers analyzed field recordings from five different poor and working-class communities. They found that the amount of speech children heard varied from one place to another.

The lowest-income children recorded in South Baltimore heard 1.7 times as many words per hour as did Hart and Risley's "welfare" group. And in the "Black Belt," an area in rural Alabama, poor children heard three times as many words as Hart and Risley's "welfare" group.

The wide variation "unsettles the notion that income alone determines how many words children hear," lead author Douglas Sperry tells NPR.

4. Some people take issue with the whole idea of a "gap"

Sperry and his co-authors fall into a camp that criticizes the "word gap" concept as racially and culturally loaded in a way that ultimately hurts the children whom early intervention programs ostensibly trying to help.

"To look at income alone obscures real questions about the cultural mismatch between children of color and mainstream European children and their teachers as they enter schools," says Sperry. In other words, it's not necessarily that poor children aren't ready for school; it's that schools and teachers are not ready for these children.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, has called attention to the "word wealth" experienced by children who grow up learning a different language or even a different dialect than the dominant standard English spoken in school. This would describe not only recent immigrants, but also anyone whose background isn't white, educated and middle or upper class. When they get to school, they must learn to "code switch" between two ways of speaking.

She doesn't disagree that "there's variation in how much adults speak to children," but, she tells NPR, there shouldn't necessarily be a value judgment placed on that.

"Should adults direct lots of questions to children in ways that prepare them to answer questions in school?" she asks, calling that a "middle-class, mostly white practice."

"There are other values, like using language to entertain or connect, rather than just have children perform their knowledge. How do we honor different families rather than have families change their values to align with school?"

Similarly, Sofia Bahena, an education professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, says talking about "word gaps," like "achievement gaps," is an example of what she calls deficit thinking.

"We can talk about differences without resorting to deficit language by being mindful and respectful of those we are speaking or researching about," she explains. "We can shift the question from 'how can we fix these students?' to 'how can we best serve them?' It doesn't mean we don't speak hard truths. But it does mean we try to ask more critical questions to have a deeper understanding of the issues."

Jennifer Keys Adair at the University of Texas, Austin published a study last year of how the "word gap" rubber is meeting the road of schools.

She and her co-authors spoke with nearly 200 superintendents, administrators, teachers, parents and young children in mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant communities. The educators expressed the belief that the children in grades pre-K through third in this community could not handle learner-centered, project-based, hands-on learning because their vocabulary was too limited. And, the children in the study themselves echoed the belief that they needed to sit quietly and listen in order to learn.

Adair says the "word gap" has become a kind of code word. "We can say 'vocabulary.' We're not going to say 'poor' and we're not going to use 'race,' but it's still a marker."

5. The underlying desire to help kids is still pretty compelling, though

Walker says that Hart and Risley were happy to engage with their critics. "They valued that input and the give and take." But, she says, they were sometimes "dismayed" at misinterpretations of their research, such as if people took ideas about the importance of an early start as justification for not trying to improve student outcomes later on in school.

Some boosters agree with critics that the "word gap" may need a reframing.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, with her longtime collaborator Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and other researchers, wrote a scholarly critique of the Sperry study for the Brookings Institution .

"I am worried," Hirsh-Pasek tells NPR, that downplaying the word gap will have "dangerous" consequences. "Whenever you send out a message that 'Hey, this doesn't matter,' the policymakers are listening and say, 'Hey, that's great, we can divert the money.' "

Sperry's measures included "bystander talk" by multiple people in the room, including older siblings and other relatives. So did the LENA study. Hirsh-Pasek says the psychological research is clear that it's the "dance" of interaction between caregiver and child that is crucial to learning speech.

While this point is fairly settled among developmental psychologists, anthropologists may dissent, says Douglas Sperry. In some cultures, such as the Mayans in Central America, addressing young children directly is uncommon, yet people still learn to talk, he notes.

Hirsh-Pasek does agree with the critics that framing the issue as a deficit is wrong. "I'm so sorry that the 30 million word gap was framed as a gap," she says. "I like to talk about it as building a foundation rather than reducing a gap."

But, she adds, the sheer volume of conversation directed at children, not just spoken in their presence, is fundamental to language learning and later success in school. All the cultural variation in the world "doesn't negate the fact that when you look at the averages, there is a problem here."

And what's most important, says Hirsh-Pasek, is that interventions inspired by Hart and Risley are nudging parents in the right direction . "We have made changes and movement in kids, in whole communities."

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1000 Word Essay - A Simple Guide With Examples

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What is a 1000 Word Essay?

A 1000 word essay is an essay that covers any topic or theme within a 1000-word limit. It typically covers about 3-4 pages.

The main purpose of this essay is to:

Present a concise and coherent argument in response to a stimulus or question.
Express the opinion of the writer.
Improve the writer’s writing, thinking, and critical skills

Moreover, a 1000 word essay is not an essay type. It is a format that can be used for writing any type of essay, including:

Descriptive essay
Narrative essay
Persuasive Essay
Argumentative Essay
Problem and Solution Essay

1000 Word Essay Structure

A 1000 word essay consists of an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion, just like all other essays. However, the only difference is the word count distribution across the essay.

When writing a 1000-word essay, the introduction should be about 100-150 words, the main body should be about 700 words, and the conclusion should be about 100-150 words.

Here is the essay structure to help you divide your word count appropriately across the 1000 words.

How to Write a 1000 Word Essay?

Now that you know how this essay is structured, let’s move on to how to write it. Here are some steps that you can follow to compose an excellent essay.

Choose an Engaging Topic

Choosing an interesting essay topic is necessary to keep the readers engaged. For t essay, make sure you choose a topic that you can cover within your word count.

Start the Research

Doing research is one of the most important parts of writing an essay. It ensures that you have all the information to create a strong composition. You should always make sure your sources are credible so no misleading info gets into your work.

Develop the Outline

An outline is the main element of essay writing that can save time, make things easier, and earn a better grade. It will also help your essays be logically structured and easy for others to read. Without a proper essay outline , you might forget the main points you should add to your essay.

Create a Compelling Introduction

An essay introduction is one of the most important components of a paper or essay. This part should be 100-150 words.

Start an essay with a catchy hook and then provide background information about your topic. Finally, end the introduction with a strong thesis statement , indicating its main argument.

Write Effective Body Paragraphs

The body section should be 600-800 words long, and each section must be 200-300.

Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence that indicates the main point. Afterward, present your arguments and support them with evidence. Also, conclude each paragraph with a transition to maintain a logical flow.

Write a Strong Conclusion

The conclusion is the final part of your essay, where you offer some final thoughts and tie together the key points. An essay conclusion recaps all the main points and restates the thesis statement in an authoritative way.

Proofread and Revise the Draft

Once you finish writing your first draft, proofread it for any mistakes and potential improvements. Edit, revise, and polish your essay until it becomes the best version of itself.

How to Format a 1000 Word Essay

Formatting an essay involves setting the layout of the essay to make it easy to read and understand. Different formatting styles, such as the APA, MLA, Chicago, and others, prescribe different rules.

However, some aspects of formatting are common across different styles. Here is how you can format your 1000-word essay properly:

Font Style: Times New Roman, Arial or Calibri
Font Size: 12-points
Margins: 1 inch (2.54 cm) on all sides
Line-Spacing: Double-spaced
Headings: Headings and subheadings should be distinguished from the normal font

Other specifics, such as the page number, title page, references, etc., depend on the instructions of your professor. So always make sure to ask your instructor for complete formatting guidelines.

Learn more about writing formats with our comprehensive essay format guide.

1000 Word Essay Examples

Reading some 1000 word essay samples is an effective way to understand how these essays work. Here are some 1000 word essay example PDFs to give you a taste of what a 1000 words essay looks like.

1000 Word Essay on Human Rights

1000 Word Essay on Discipline

1000 Word Essay on Time Management

1000 Word Essay on Punctuality

1000 Word Essay on Leadership

1000 Word Essay On Why I Want To Be A Nurse

1000 Word Essay on Respect

1000 Word Essay on Global Warming

1000 Word Essay on Accountability

1000 Word Essay Topic Examples

Finding an interesting topic for your reader can be difficult, but it's worth the time. Here are some essay topic ideas that you can use for your essay.

Americans should have more holidays and longer vacations.
Should Students get limited access to the Internet?
Why is learning history important?
Cell phones should not be allowed in schools.
What is the best role for news reporters in the digital era?
What are the causes and effects of terrorism?
Does climate change occur due to human activity?
What is the effect of family vacations on family relationships?
How is social media changing parent and child relationships?
Is summer school designed to help children?

What Topics Are Suitable For 1000-Word Essays?

If you haven't been assigned a topic, you will have to choose one yourself. To come up with a good topic, follow these tips:

Ask yourself: what is the type of your essay? Is it informative, argumentative, persuasive, or exploratory? It will help you think of relevant topics.
Brainstorm. Come up with a list of potential essay topics that you can cover in 1000 words.
Narrow down this list down to a topic that you can easily discuss. Make sure you have enough information to write about that topic.

How Long is a 1000 Word Essay?

The number of pages in a 1000 word essay differs based on formatting, such as line spacing and font size.

A 1000-word essay can take up to anywhere between 3-4 pages when using standard academic formatting (12-pt font size & Double-spaced).

How Many Paragraphs Will a 1000-Word Essay Be?

A 1000 word essay usually contains 5 paragraphs. It includes one paragraph introduction, three body paragraphs, and one conclusion paragraph.

However, there could be 4 to 6 paragraphs based on your essay’s topic and structure.

How Many References for a 1000 Word Essay?

The number of references for a 1000 word essay depends on how many sources you use in your essay. However, 12 references are enough for a 1000 word essay.

You can also consult your professor and add references to your essay because all professors have different requirements.

How Long Does It Take to Write 1000 Words?

On average, a 1000 word essay can take up to 3 hours to write. However, the time it takes to write this essay depends on your knowledge of the topic and your writing speed.

Watch this video to see a step-by-step live example of how to write a 1000 word essay in minutes.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 150 Words?

To write 150 words, it will take you approximately 30 minutes.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 300 Words?

Writing 300 words will take approximately 1 hour.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 400 Words?

To write 400 words, it will take you approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 500 Words?

To write 500 words, it will take you approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 600 Words?

To write 600 words, it will take you approximately 2 hours.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 800 Words?

To write 800 words, it will take you approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes.

How Long Will It Take Me to Write 1000 Words?

To write 1000 words, it will take you approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Go through this teacher’s rubric to gather relevant essay content for a 1000 word essay.

How to Write Different Types of 1000 Word Essays?

There are many different types of essays that you can write in 1000 words. Some of them are briefly discussed below;

Descriptive Essay: This essay is about giving a clear and vivid description. You might use an essay to describe a place, person, object, or memory that is special to you.

Narrative Essay: In a narrative essay, you write about a personal experience in the form of a narrative. That is, you need to tell a story in 100 words.

Persuasive Essay: This paper presents facts and arguments to convince the reader to agree with the writer. Use logic and evidence to support your argument.

Expository Essay: These essays offer an informative and balanced analysis of a topic. This means that you need to define or explain the topic in detail.

Tips for Writing a 1000-Word Essay

Below given are some tips that our professional writers recommend.

Select the right essay topic.
Follow the correct essay format.
Use Times New Roman font, Calibri font, and Arial font.
Use 250 words in each body paragraph.
Write a brief conclusion and never extend it to 500 words.
Keep the page count and number of words in mind.
Follow the specific pattern so you don’t spend hours writing.

To sum up, that was everything you needed to know to get started on your 1000-word essay. Read some examples, choose an interesting topic, and follow the writing steps provided above, and you’ll be able to craft an excellent essay in no time.

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How Many Pages Is 1,000,000 Words?

1,000,000 words is 2000 pages single-spaced or 4000 pages double-spaced . Typical documents that are 1,000,000 words or more include full-length novels . It will take approximately 3,333 minutes to read 1,000,000 words .

A 1,000,000 word count will create about 2000 pages with single spacing or 4000 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Arial font, and a standard A4 (letter size) page size.

However, the number of pages will vary depending on your margins, font family, font size, whether you use multiple spaces after a period , and your paragraph spacing settings. For example, 1 page single spaced created using Arial font will generate only 0.9 pages with Calibri or Times New Roman font.

How many pages is 1,000,000 words single-spaced.

1,000,000 words single-spaced is 2000 pages. A standard single-spaced page contains 500 words.

How Many Pages Is a 1,000,000 Word Essay or Paper?

A 1,000,000 words essay will be 2000 pages single-spaced or 4000 pages double-spaced. A standard single-spaced page contains 500 words.

How Many Pages Is 1,000,000 Words Double-Spaced?

1,000,000 words double-spaced is 4000 pages. Teachers may ask you to write an essay using double spacing so that it's easier to read and easier to add comments/feedback to. A standard double-spaced page contains 250 words.

How Many Pages Is 1,000,000 Words Handwritten?

1,000,000 words handwritten and single-spaced produces 4000 pages. Handwriting is about twice as large as words typed in 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font which makes single-spaced handwritten pages equivalent to double-spaced pages.

How Many Paragraphs Is 1,000,000 Words?

1,000,000 words is about 5000-10000 paragraphs for essays or 10000-20000 for easier reading (to allow skimming). A paragraph length typically has 100-200 words and 5-6 sentences.

How Many Sentences Is 1,000,000 Words?

1,000,000 words is about 50000-66667 sentences. A sentence typically has 15–20 words.

How Many Words Is 2000 Pages?

2000 pages is 1,000,000 words when single-spaced or 500,000 words when double-spaced. A standard single-spaced page contains 500 words.

Which Font Produces More Pages?

Of the standard fonts used in essays and other documents, Verdana will create the most pages. On average, Verdana will create 1.1 pages for every 1 page written using Arial and 0.9 pages for every page written with Times New Roman or Calibri in Microsoft Word or Google Docs. These are just estimates . If you're looking to write the fewest number of words for your school assignment to meet a page count, we recommend using Verdana (if allowed) or Arial. A good rule of thumb is to use Arial font unless your teacher provides different guidelines for font or spacing.

How Long Does It Take to Write a 1,000,000 Word Essay?

On average it will take approximately 416.7 hours for the average writer typing on a keyboard at a typing speed of 40 words per minute.

How Many Words per Page?

To quickly find out how many pages various word counts make, see the table below. You’ll be able to understand quickly how many words you need to write for your essays, blog articles, or memos with page limits:

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AP Style Millions, Billions, Trillions

Home » AP Style » AP Style Millions, Billions, Trillions

Use figures with million, billion, or trillion in all except casual uses. For example,

I’d like to make a billion dollars.
The nation has 1 million citizens.
I need $8 billion.
The government ran a deficit of more than $1 trillion.

Do not go beyond two decimal places. For example,

7.51 million people
$256 billion
7,549,899 people
$2,234,239,000

Decimals are preferred where practical. For example,

1.5 million
1 1/2 million

Do not mix millions and billion in the same figure. For example,

2.5 billion
2 billion 500 million

Do not drop the word million or billion into the first figure of a range. For example,

He is worth $4 million to $5 million.
He is worth $4 to $5 million.

Unless that is, of course, you actually mean $4.

Note that a hyphen is not used to join the figures and the word “million” or “billion,” even in this type of phrase,

The president submitted a $300 billion budget.

In headlines, abbreviate only millions, billions. For example,

$5M lawsuit, $17.4B deficit

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In a Million Words or Fewer...
Teachers share how they ask parents to write about their children in a million words or fewer at the beginning of the school year. This activity helps teachers learn about their students, connect with their parents, and get insights into their needs and expectations.
A Million Words or Fewer: Deborah Bova's Tried-and-True Method for
Deborah Bova's "Million Words or Less" start of the year assignment. The story goes that back in 2003, teacher Deborah Bova introduced something she called the Million Word essay to colleagues on a now-inactive listserv at MiddleWeb. Though the listserv doesn't exist anymore, this PDF of the conversation Bova started does.
Trying 1 Million Words Again in 2021
Project management apps are a great way to keep yourself motivated and working when trying to reach one million words per day. Then again, you have to make sure you're actually using them. About 99% of success boils down to the amount of effort you put in. 4. Use Tools Like Grammarly for Workflow.
How I Wrote A Million Words In A Year (And How You Can Too)
A Word is a Word. The first step is to not get precious or fancy with your words. A word is a word, and it doesn't matter in what context you wrote it down. If your goal is to write a million blogging words, then every blog you write counts. If your goal is fiction, every fiction word counts. This is not an evaluative exercise.
1 Million Word Essay
Reading 1 million words is no small feat. To put it into perspective, consider the following: On average, an adult reads at a pace of around 200 to 300 words per minute. If we assume a conservative reading speed of 200 words per minute, it would take approximately 5,000 minutes to read 1 million words. This translates to roughly 83 hours and 20 ...
The First Million Words Are Practice
That's really what those first million words are all about. They're a measure of the time you've spent doing the reps. They are a gauge for how much effort you're putting into honing your craft. They're a proving ground for ideas, to help you find your voice and your style, and essentially define yourself as a writer.
How I am Averaging One Million Words in 2022
1. Gamify Writing with a Spreadsheet. I talk about my spreadsheet quite a bit. It's been instrumental in my success over the years, and something I've maintained since the beginning of 2012. For me, keeping track of word count and time is a game. In this case, the number of words is like a score, and I strive to beat my all-time personal bests.
1 Million Word Writing Challenge 2020!
You only need 3,817 words Monday through Friday to reach one million words by the end of the year. If you write for eight hours per day, this is only 478 words per hour. It's not impossible. The only thing from keeping you from accomplishing the writing challenge for 2020 is a lack of effort.
PDF A Million Words A Wonderful Tool to Connect with Parents
I tried the "Million Words or Less" idea with my 90+ 8th grade middle school students. Since we have quite a diverse population, I offered the option that if their parent/guardians did not write in English or simply did not have the time to write, that they could dictate to the student and the student would record their words.
1,000,000 words!
1,000,000 words! As the one millionth word enters the English lexicon, the joys of our truly global language.
Million Word Essay (Beginning of Year Parent Communication)
The "Million Word Essay" is an assignment for the parents to write an essay about their child in LESS then a million words. This is a great way to: (a) Connect with parents. It makes a favorable impression and gets the year off to a good start. (b) Learning more about your students (and their parents) by the parents response.
expressions
1 million$ deal — just plain wrong, currency symbol is not suffixed to words. $1m deal — correct, but unidiomatic. The options would thus be: One million dollar deal — should be okay. A million dollar deal — idiomatic, preferred in literary/ narrative use. A $1m deal — use in shortened versions, titles, captions, abstracts ….
1,000,000 Words
The author shares her experience of writing over a million words and how it affects her as a writer and a person. She reflects on her discipline, creativity, and ambition, and compares herself to Michael Jordan and Sybil.
Let's Stop Talking About The '30 Million Word Gap'
With all that in mind, here are six things to know about the 30 million word gap. 1. The original study had just 42 families. During the War on Poverty in the 1960s, Betty Hart, a former preschool ...
1000 Word Essay
Here is the essay structure to help you divide your word count appropriately across the 1000 words. Structure for a 1000 word essay. There are usually 5 paragraphs in a 1000 word essay. 1. Introduction (100-150 words) Start with an attention-grabbing hook statement. Provide some overview of the topic.
Words Per Page: convert words to pages calculator
There are approximately 45000 words in 100 pages. Words per Page is a free online words to pages calculator which converts the numbers of words you write into pages and allows you to change margins, font size and fonts.
Writing One Million Words
His advice (from the link above) is "I suggest to new writers that 2k a week be a minimum. That gives you a book in about a year.". This turns out to be 2,000×52=104,000 or about 1,000,000 words in 10 years, which is a somewhat funny coincidence with the 10,000 hour/10 year/1,000,000 word rule. Immerse yourself.
How to Write a Million Words in One Year
But you don't need to. If you want to know how to write a million words in a year all you have to do is sit down and move your hands over the keyboard. Don't fiddle with notebooks and then rewriting - if you want to write one million words in a year, do it on the computer. Last year I wrote 1,251,573 words and this year I have a feeling I ...
One Million Words
I spent about 20 years building up to one million words. I've written most of my words (~75%) since establishing a writing habit about eight years ago. One million words is about 4,000 pages. (The entire Harry Potter septology is 4,224 pages.) Ten different projects make up those one million words. (Four works of fanfiction [totaling about ...
How Many Pages Is 1,000,000 Words?
Typical documents that are 1,000,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 3,333 minutes to read 1,000,000 words. A 1,000,000 word count will create about 2000 pages with single spacing or 4000 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Arial font, and a standard A4 (letter size) page size.
AP Style Millions, Billions, Trillions
Unless that is, of course, you actually mean $4. Note that a hyphen is not used to join the figures and the word "million" or "billion," even in this type of phrase, The president submitted a $300 billion budget. In headlines, abbreviate only millions, billions. For example, $5M lawsuit, $17.4B deficit. See also AP Style Numbers.
Convert Words to Pages
This website converts the number of words to the number of pages, online and for free. This tool is useful when writing essays at university to determine how many pages you are required to write. The number of pages changes depending on the number of words, the font and the font size. You can select the following fonts: Arial, Calibri, Comic ...