Writing a lot of words

900 hours later...

You’ve probably heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s famous notion that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in a particular skill. I was pondering the numbers recently, wondering where I am on that scale in terms of my writing.

I’ve been writing on a mostly weekly basis for about seven years. So that’s 364 weeks/chapters. Let’s drop that to 300 weeks/chapte…