I love this piece over on CreateSpace by Richard Ridley on word count paralysis. Sometimes I am guilty of this and it was refreshing to see that other writers feel the same.

Sometimes staring at the blinking cursor on your computer screen can make it morph into a stop sign and prevent you from holding a thought long enough to tap it out on your keyboard. It can be an unintentional panic signal that freezes your fingers in place and fills you with heaping helpings of writer’s doubt. Your focus shifts from what you want to write to how many words you must write before you will allow yourself to stop for the day. Gradually, you fixate exclusively on that word count goal, and you’re unable to type a single solitary word. I call it “word count paralysis,” and there’s really only one way to prevent it: Ditch the daily word count goal. In the end, it doesn’t really matter how many words you write in a day. Your only goal is to make some sort of progress; big or small, it doesn’t matter. The only thing that does matter is that you advance from where you were the day before.

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I make a living writing, ePublishing, and marketing books and teaching others how to do the same. I have one mission: To turn you into the best writer that you can be while enjoying every minute of it!

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