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Exactly. That's exactly it. I don't know how Fogel does it.

A few years back I decided I was going to write every day.

I'd try to write as best I could, but if I was having a rough day or a lack of ideas, I'd settle for a paragraph. Keeping the bar low made it easier to avoid failing, which made it easier to buoy myself with my own successes.

I missed a few days that first year, but it was less than ten. Overall, I was keeping it up enough that I got used to it.

Once I was comfortable there, I started pushing myself a little harder in what I was asking myself to do. Now I try to write two things a day, and fill a whole screen in my text editor with at least one of them.

I give myself a little leeway on the length if I'm updating two adventures, since this year I'm aiming for daily updates in Swamped. Continuing a coherent narrative every day for a year is a pretty big challenge, but it's one I feel up to.

And I think that's the key - think of something you're confident you can do, and just focus on doing that. If that's "type a coherent sentence every day", go for it. When you're doing that consistently, you can start looking at other ways to challenge yourself. Don't get hung up on the quality - if you do find yourself disappointed in the quality of your output, keep going anyways. You'll get better.

This would probably be helpful for drawing, too. I don't have firsthand experience with that, but the basic idea can certainly apply there. If I were to seriously attempt to improve my art, that's where I'd begin, myself.

I hope people found that helpful in some way.