Ten Years of Writing Every Day

Friday, January 9, 2026

Written by Kodi Wolf at 11:56 PM

I mostly just wanted to take a moment to commemorate that I've been writing every day for ten years now.

When I first started my writing streak on January 9, 2016, I didn't expect it to last for more than a few months, let alone a frickin' decade.

I just went back through my Writing Stats posts and added it up.

I've written 2,400,339 words over those 10 years. That's an average of 240,034 words a year, which is an average of 657 words a day. Every day. For 10 years.

You know, with everything else that's been going on, I kind of needed to see that.

And yes, I realize it's skewed from years where I was able to put a lot more time and energy into my writing than I've been able to in recent years. And half of those words are brainstorming notes and outlines. But the other half is definitely story text, even if the majority is currently unposted, and I've been actively using all those notes and outlines to get new scenes and chapters written on a regular basis, so it's not like it doesn't count.

Anyway, I recently went through a free course (The Overwintering Writer) that focused on reviewing the previous year in order to prepare and plan for the upcoming year, and having that chance to pause and reflect on my current writing routine and be a little more intentional with things has really helped me clarify what I want to accomplish this year.

But I think I'll get into that in a later post. For now, I just wanted to leave this note here for myself the next time I'm skimming through these posts.

You did it. You're a fucking writer. :)

Now do what you love and go write.