Should I changed my writing goal for the year? The perpetual debate.

I feel like I go through this every single year. I set a writing goal. Then I hem and haw over whether I should change it. Last year, I was afraid the fact that I was steadily meeting my goal meant it was too easy and wanted to increase it. (I eventually did since I met the original goal with time to spare.)

As regular readers know, I set a goal for 2011 of 500,000 words by the end of the year. This was part pie in the sky number, part "I should be able to do 50,000 words...