Do you know the game show called $100,000 Pyramid? It pits two teams of two against one another. One player from each team gives clues to his/her partner for him/her to guess the category and score a point. For example, Clue One Giver would say to Clue One Guesser, “Small boxes of cereal, bottles of soda, candy and gum, the newspaper, tobacco products, ummmm, kids hanging out in the front who piss off and scare the proprietor!” And Clue One Guesser shouts out, “Things you find at a corner store or bodega!” The winner from several rounds of excited shouting plays the same format in tougher categories for the big money, the $100,000, which back in the day was a lotta Benjamins. Come to think of it, it still is.
So it gives me great pleasure to announce that I have achieved another writing milestone. I just hit 100,000 published words for this blog! (Cue the pyramid!) Which means if I keep up this pace, by roughly 2028 I will hit the ONE MILLION WORDS mark, but let’s not march just yet. I have a full-time job, a relationship, friends, family, commitments, travel, and the need for occasional sleep– which may all fall into the not yet publicized category “Reasons you’ll never get to one million words.”
But it’s ok because I’m not writing to achieve a milestone. I’m writing because I love it! I’m writing because it makes me laugh. Thoughts jog my memory. Focused thinking forces my concentration. A deep dive makes me evaluate my life and my choices. Writing makes me feel creative. And it makes me productive and happy. I’ve turned a blank page into something that speaks! I’ve really found my voice. And I like the concept of sharing my words. I have created blogs. (And on the seventh day, after God rested, while he was surfing the ‘net, God created blogs!)
So here’s to 100,000 blah blah blogs with more in the works (I hope). And if you’re a new fan or a die-hard follower of my musings, definitely grab a copy of my collection of essays, JEN’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK: Bacon Wrapped Dates. It’s a quick 80,000 word read of fun, flirty fiction, and it’s available on Amazon for a steal under the “books” tab. (Authors note: Thank goodness I didn’t have a million words to write regarding all the tragic dates I’d been on. I’m glad to be published and even happier that it’s a one and done book, and not a ten-part series about my indefinitely long dating escapades!)
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