Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

Unlocking Creativity The Million Words Challenge

16 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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In this motivational talk, the speaker introduces the "million words" concept, urging writers to produce a massive volume of text—ideally a million words—to push through early low-quality output and reach a higher standard of writing. The premise is that by "bleeding" the inevitable bad words, subsequent work improves dramatically. The speaker also highlights the use of Grammarly as a tracking and feedback tool, noting that Grammarly emailed them a report showing they wrote 13 million words in the previous year, underscoring the practicality of monitoring word count to sustain the habit.

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I don't know if you've heard of the million words before, but the idea is, um, you've got to get a million words out, right? Because they're going to be bad words. So you have to kind of bleed, bleed the million words, and then everything that comes after that is going to be a lot better. So I, I have this tremendous tool called Grammarly that I'm sure a lot of people will have heard of, and it emails me and it's like, you wrote 13 million words last year.