Not sure I quite agree with some of your points.You say, "Writing the wrong words is worse than writing no words at all. Sooner or later you will, one hopes, realise they’re the wrong words and have to go back and unwrite them, taking out any other wrong words you wrote as a result of that initial false turning. This is a desperate waste of time and energy. There is no point in chasing targets for the sake of it."There is a saying, that you can&#039;t fix an empty page. When I interviewed New York Times Bestselling author Scott Sigler, he talked about "getting the clay on the wheel". You need something there first before you can start to shape your masterpiece. You mustn&#039;t worry about throwing stuff away if it doesn&#039;t work, but sometimes you don&#039;t know it doesn&#039;t work until you&#039;ve got it all down. That&#039;s part of the process. If you write a 100,000-word first draft, and end up rewriting 50,000 words of it, that&#039;s not a waste of time at all. By saying that a writer has wasted their time on those bad 50,000 words in the first place, you&#039;re instilling the fear - the fear that what they&#039;re writing isn&#039;t good enough, that everyone else is better than them, that they need to try harder, that maybe they aren&#039;t cut out to be a writer after all.The first draft is allowed to suck. Get the clay on the wheel. You can&#039;t fix an empty page.Pretty simple rules I think.