I Discreetly Weaponized My Blog to Motivate My Writing

indiewebblogging I Discreetly Weaponized My Blog to Motivate My Writing A monthly word-count tracker hidden in plain sight https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-11-06--weaponized-blog.html khleedril.org/2026-11-06--weaponized-blog Dale Mellor https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor 6th November, 2026 Have you spotted it yet? I find that the only thing which motivates me to write is to constantly count words. The only targets meaningful to me when I sit down to write are when I tell myself that I am going to produce 100 or 1,000 words or even sometimes—when Iʼm desperate for progress—3,000 words. Any other kinds of targets, such as completion of chapters, deadlines, or actual page inches, do not give me the same level of impetus. Since writing this blog in its current form (from the beginning of this year), I have come to realize that I read its pages very frequently, a bit like the speedometer in a car. It mostly amounts to procrastination, but the ostensible reason is to observe how the quality…

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