Current Project: The Song of Seven

I am listing this as the current project. The future project would more accurately describe the project however. I have realized that writing 3781 words per day, a writer could write a novel of 1.38 million words in length in a single year. This would beat the current Guinness World Record of the the longest novel, currently held by Marcel Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu.'

The resulting novel's word count would also be 1/1000th the age of the known universe in years. To do this, a novelist would need to write roughly 4000 words per day. Anthony Trollope wrote 3000 per day, and did so consistently through his whole life. Many writers of the Victorian era, such as Charles Dickens, wrote enormous masterpieces such as 'Bleak House' in a serialized fashion in Newspapers. This serialized method forced the authors to write the story in real time, leaving them unable to go back and edit or rework.

To perform such a feat in a serial fashion, the author would need to plan out their plot and their structure well in advance. The following is especially true if the author plans (as I do) to use multiple interweaving plots to tell a story that transcends any one plot.

So that is my plan. I will write a novel that will break the Guinness World Record for the longest novel (somebody other than the author must also have published the work, but that can be addressed later).  I will write this novel in 2000 word installments, twice per day. I will post the progress as I write it, serializing it as Charles Dickens serialized 'Bleak House'. I also release the whole work into the public domain.

I am planning my project now. I am not ready to begin writing. I do not know whether I can do this. But whether I succeed or fail, the attempt should prove magnificent.