Hmm. This is me brainstorming thoughts in text. $0.02 only.
I know that I do best with the daily word counts if I know it's for a certain period of time. 40 days is good for me. Then I take a break. I have an end-date. I mostly mention it, because I think people that excel at Nano can do it because there's a stopping point. Maybe the promise of a breather will help the goal seem less... hmm, overwhelming? Hard to say. In my experience, sometimes it's sheer willpower and dumb determination that makes me sit down even if I have to stay up 20 minutes later. When it comes to dieting, I read somewhere that women should aim for 80% accuracy... because some days we'll push harder than others, but the days we don't will always get us down. Personally, if there's some sort of faith-based reasoning to accompany my, uh, 40 days... it typically inspires me to write more faithfully. As a cheerful obligation and choice. If that makes any sense.
Ah, but maybe it's a weird strength some writers can find comes more easily than others. I'm still incapable of finding "the real story" the first time around and haven't much luck in always getting my word count up to where I'd like it to be. Short and poor quality, that's my favorite default. haha.
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I know that I do best with the daily word counts if I know it's for a certain period of time. 40 days is good for me. Then I take a break. I have an end-date. I mostly mention it, because I think people that excel at Nano can do it because there's a stopping point. Maybe the promise of a breather will help the goal seem less... hmm, overwhelming? Hard to say. In my experience, sometimes it's sheer willpower and dumb determination that makes me sit down even if I have to stay up 20 minutes later. When it comes to dieting, I read somewhere that women should aim for 80% accuracy... because some days we'll push harder than others, but the days we don't will always get us down. Personally, if there's some sort of faith-based reasoning to accompany my, uh, 40 days... it typically inspires me to write more faithfully. As a cheerful obligation and choice. If that makes any sense.
Ah, but maybe it's a weird strength some writers can find comes more easily than others. I'm still incapable of finding "the real story" the first time around and haven't much luck in always getting my word count up to where I'd like it to be. Short and poor quality, that's my favorite default. haha.