Set words seems a bit arbitrary to me sometimes, but it does work. Are you on the NaNo pep talk email list still? The one we just got today pretty much just echoed everything we've been saying. But he has a great idea of sitting down and writing a chapter at a time, letting yourself go back and revise the previous chapter first as a warm-up and then plow straight into the next chapter. I sort of love that idea (the no revising has been killing me this month).

Every time I let myself seriously trying to have a writing career, my mind automatically jumps to a degree program, like I am incapable of finishing (or hell, even starting) anything without an outside arbitrary deadline like university courses or some such. But then my husband gets this freaked out look when I mention going back to school, probably remembering how unpleasant I was the first time around. lol.

I think we should definitely set up some sort of comm geared towards helping us set writing goals, a sort of lower pressure version of NaNo where in we can encourage each other and mete out fitting punishments, and, of course, just bitch to each other about our writing woes. I was even thinking doing some sort of prompt comm where a writing exercise is posted just to get the creative juices flowing.

Omg, I need to stop blathering in your journal now. :D