Challenge Yourself... 2,026 Words Per Day for 2026
Challenge Yourself to Write 2,026 Words Average Per Day For 2026
2026 Challenge
Challenge yourself to average 2,026 words per day for the entire year of 2026. These would need to be consumable words.
What are "consumable" words?
--- Any fiction of any type (no requirement to publish during the challenge time)
--- Any nonfiction that others will consume such as blogs, introductions to collections, things like that.
--- emails and comments on Facebook or blogs DO NOT COUNT.
No genre limitations.
Rules of Turn-In
1... Every month you must send me an email giving me your word count. I do not want to know what you are writing, just how much.
The cost is $600.
(No credit from anything, I am afraid. Can't buy in with credit to get more credit.)
If you miss and give up at any point, you get $600 credit toward any online teaching, such as Pop-Up series or lectures or classics or lifetime workshops. Can be used on around 400 different classes and workshops.
So in essence, you are buying at least $600 credit.
If you average 2,026 words per day by the end of the year you get the following nifty awards.
- You get your choice of any Lifetime Subscription WMG Publishing has to offer. (except the Everything Subscription.
- You also get a BEAUTIFUL TROPHY AWARD. This trophy is a hand-blown glass float from the Oregon Coast. (Photo by Travel Oregon.)
So, in Summary...
Challenge Yourself to Write, on Average, 2,026 Words Per Day for 2026.
--- Cost is $600. (The $600 gets you that much credit for anything on Teachable if you don't hit. If you win, you get a Lifetime Subscription of your choice and a beautiful hand-blown glass float we call the BEAUTIFUL TROPHY AWARD. gets you that much credit for anything on Teachable if you don't hit. If you win, you get a Lifetime Subscription of your choice and a beautiful hand-blown glass float we call the BEAUTIFUL TROPHY AWARD.
This is a win/win/win challenge. Jump in, should be great fun!
Lifetime Everything Subscribers, you can do this for fun (but no trophy I'm afraid) or you can buy in and give the subscription to someone and get the trophy. If you miss, you can give the credit to someone else as well. Skin in the game always helps.
Questions, write me at dean.wmgworkshops@gmail.com
This is a win/win/win challenge. Jump in, should be great fun!
Your Instructor
With over twenty-three million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith now brings you original fiction every month for the past three years in his own magazine, Smith’s Monthly.
Dean wrote over twenty-five original Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, plus Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man novels, and others. He wrote many gaming novels including Final Fantasy.
He wrote novels and stories under almost fifty pen names and did scripts for Hollywood as well as being an editor for various magazines. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. You can follow his writing life at www.deanwesleysmith.com