I’ve been tracking my writing count this year, aiming for a goal of 10,000 words a month. I liked this, because it didn’t put pressure on me to get word count out every single day but it also didn’t feel overwhelming in the way that saying “120,000 words this year” would have, or set the deadline so far out that I could keep putting things off till the last minute.

It was going swimmingly, till the beginning of September, when suddenly my write-function shut down. I haven’t been able to manage a word in weeks. This is frustrating.