That's why I said "sustain." I've written 10,000 words some days too. It was totally addictive for me, in all the bad ways, so I have a knee-jerk reaction to holding that up as a goal.
I was really thinking about it in the context of LKH -- as far as I've been able to tell, except for vacations, she writes every single day, no days off. She seems to feel terrible about herself when she doesn't reach that massive goal, and I've seen many other people do the same. Happening to write 10,000 words and going, huh, that's neat, is different from trying to force yourself to do that literally every day of the week and hating yourself when you can't, like she does. I think all her braggadocio about this is a cover for a deep self-hatred that she doesn't produce more.
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Date: 2014-07-26 12:33 am (UTC)I was really thinking about it in the context of LKH -- as far as I've been able to tell, except for vacations, she writes every single day, no days off. She seems to feel terrible about herself when she doesn't reach that massive goal, and I've seen many other people do the same. Happening to write 10,000 words and going, huh, that's neat, is different from trying to force yourself to do that literally every day of the week and hating yourself when you can't, like she does. I think all her braggadocio about this is a cover for a deep self-hatred that she doesn't produce more.