Hey David, love the blog.

My New Year's resolution was challenging myself to write 1k words a day, but that doesn't mean that the goal is always met.  I think that word counts have different meanings to different people -- for me, I use them because without them, I wouldn't have any real marker for how my work is progressing.  I need to know that I'm making a dent in a novel, and when your novel is 100,000 words long, and you are 70,000 words in, it definitely feels as though you are just swimming in a miasmic void of infinity.  My 1,000 word-a-day challenge (I call it a challenge... it's more fun that way, I think) is imperitive to my writing, although I never, ever write EXACTLY 1,000 words.

Sometimes I will write only 250 words... sometimes I'll bang out an entire chapter, it really depends on how the muse is striking me, but it is always good to have a waypoint.  Without it, I could see myself thrashing about, going back and tinkering with little bits of dialouge and backstory ad infinitum before I even know how the story is going to end.  With the challenge in place, it gives me incentive to CREATE as oppose to just change, and that's important, especially for me.  My 1k-a-day is also great as it keeps tension ratcheted up as well. 1,000 words of interior monologue will always get boring, even if one writes in a genre saddled with the praenomen of 'literary'.

I have the Scrivener trial edition, but as I am already ~80,000 words into my current WIP, turning the whole thing into a .scriv seems like a bunch of trouble that I'm not ready to get into yet.  With that being said, I'm still not sold on the product yet.  I'm not really sure when I would use all of those extra gewgaws, but I'm tickled that they exist.  Maybe when version 2.0 comes out I'll buy it.