To MilWordY or Not to MilWordy...

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To MilWordY or Not to MilWordY...

... that is the question.

With the new year coming up quick, I have to decide if I'm going to attempt MilWordY. I was planning on doing it from January through December 2024, but as the date approaches I think I am getting cold feet.

If you don't know what it is, it's a challenge where you write one million words in a year. It's like NaNoWriMo, but 12 times as long and 33000 words more per month... yikes. In the new year I'm planning on expanding my horizons a bit and writing things that aren't just fanfiction, which would help, since I definitely couldn't do a million words of just fanfiction... but it's still a lot. I set up a WriteTrack challenge for it and gave every Wednesday a weight of 0, basically to simulate missing one day per week. So I'd have to write about 3k a day.

I'll still be writing fanfiction, and doing this might actually help me get through the backlog of stuff I need to get done, but I also want to do some creative non-fiction (book reviews, video game stuff, etc) here on DW and maybe I'll even do some original fiction. It might be possible to do 3k a day with a variety, but as I am kind of in burn out land currently, I am a little hesitant about tackling this challenge.

What do you guys think? Should I try it?