One Million words!?!

I was recently at a pastors retreat in Appleton, WI. and was given a bit of unusual advice. I asked a man I greatly admire (Gayle Erwin) about his approach to writing books. After reading his book "The Jesus Style" my life was changed spiritually and literarily. He told me, "I was told once, that before I wrote a book, to write a million words."
Ever since I received Gayle's advice, I wondered what a million words would look like. I found pictures of a million pennies (see illustration). One million words is over double the words in the Bible yet only about one third of the words in Tolkien's Lord of the rings trillogy. So much, and yet so little, could be expressed in that amount of writing. I think that blogging may give me a good start on the journey to writing and getting published one day, but if I never make it to a million, I pray that God will be glorified in all that I say.