A word count…
Lets look at this from a perspective of a book. A word is that is quite an illusive to decide what we can call a book. Of course we can say that: 'A book is published once under a single title (with the possibility of updated editions published infrequently). Periodicals are newspapers, magazines, or academic journals that are published with a regular frequency.'
Yet, its fine to expect or assume, that many book works, had around 30 to 40 thousand words. Yet, there are a way how to play with perspective of size by different format, in paper or a text, like spacing or font size. Of course, we can go in minimalist style, reducing the three size of book like on extreme diet and we get a booklet. Or, go on opposite direction and get a big boy.
Speaking of witch, an 80 thousand in word length is enough to call the work a double book, a 120, and we call the triple book, or a fatty. Yet, some people call they work a light novel. Not sure about that when, I can feel the weight of it, if its a solid cover that protect a hundreds of paper pages. Try holding that big boy for hours while reading. Not resting it in lap or on table, holding it up. Yet, some popular works had they episodes in triple book formats, from 90 to 120. In contrast, some are used to have under 20 thousand word episodes, aiming for a compact that you can easily carry around.
It a good comparison to say, that it will take a 50 to 100 times more time, to write a book, that to read it. Of course there was one author who broke the record in published works, when just sits in chair and talk a fantasies aloud and lets a type writer employee to record. Record was send to text editors team and then to publishing editors. In end, all books seems to be too similar to each, like eggs from a hen. Yet if you doing everything on you own, from composition, beta-reading, to editorial and click a publish button, then it eat out a quite amount of time. For a comparison in most of times you can fit a 500 type write (Romaji) words on a A4 page.
So lets began virtually stacking those books on each of other, or putting them onto our book shelf. And continue, until we reach a word count over a million. How long it will take it to make? A 6 to 10 years?
Don't get tricked by those numbers. Its a difference, by doing it for an hour a day, that doing it for more that six hours per every day. And of course, some people are instant reader or too quick with they fingers. On other side of coin, some are slow reader and slow tipper. And yet, not everything that someone will write got to see the publishing light. Like when my computer file holding my notes show, its hawing over 10 thousand of words in it.
Or when I have multiple files having only a first episode from possible book story. Yet the winds of creativity shifted onto a different sail to ship that story, not this one.
So, to be a writer, is a voyage level of journey.