Last year, I did a dictionary challenge of adding at least 50 new d-defines to my dictionary every day, for 30 consecutive days. The results were great. I was able to expand my vocabulary and dictionary; and I didn’t neglect my dictionary-building amidst all of my speed-building and accuracy practice.

This year, in my continued quest to build a dictionary that would make a CART-provider proud, I am challenging myself to put at least 13,000 entries into my dictionary before year’s end. Hence, my mew 13,000 words in 2013 challenge.

13,000 words, 1 year.
This will 250 new entries every week.

I’ll will post updates on my tallies and progress on a weekly basis.

Yesterday, I added 64 new entries; so, I’m off to a good start (although, technically, we don’t have an official full week of 2013, until next week).

Feel free to join me on this challenge, even if you feel the need to alter the numbers to suit your own needs.

I plan to get words from text books, biographies, news stories, and dictionaries. Feel free to share your tally too, or you can be an invisible challenge participant…It doesn’t matter, as long as we triumphantly progress in the task of building our dictionaries.

[SIDEBAR: Don’t forget to backup your dictionaries on a flash drive, or alternative storage source, as you build them.]

For the love of steno!

Happy Dictionary Building,

Elsie Villega