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a million words

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.01.23

I've written 1,077,939 words on this website. Yes, I counted.

That's book reviews, photo captions, articles & stories, fiction, one unpublished novel*, and of course - this journal and its 650,000+ words of constant chatter over 26 years.

*It's the 85,000 word novel that put me over a million. But I'll get there, one self-referential post at a time.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong