Writing for Words

July 29, 2011 at 8:33 pm (articles, writing) (, )

There’s just some problem with writing for a wordcount goal rather than just writing because you’re genuinely struck with inspiration or something.

I generally find that when I write for a word count goal daily, I’m writing in the last hour of the day and cramming in as many bull crap words as I can, even if it has nothing to do with the plot or what I want to say or anything at all. It tends to be a lower quality work and it isn’t what it needs to be. Now, I found I can get around this by skipping a day of writing and making up for it the next day… but that’s no fun, is it? I want to write what I want to write and it’ll come out the way it needs to, when it needs to.

That being said, I’m behind on my word goal for today/this month, so I’m going to write some more today.

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