10,000 is a good goal.
You might have to pick other topics to write articles on and do more. When I started, I was doing 4 articles a day and about 10 comments on other people's articles a day. As @valorforfreedom mentioned to me, he spends a good amount of his time networking in STEEMit, which means finding similar articles to his and making more than a short comment. This helps get followers who will read and upvote your articles.

Good luck.