My 2012 Pledge: To write 500,000 words this year (Again.)

Last year, I took an in depth look into my writing habits (see Looking back on past writing goals and tweaking them for the future) and, without repeating myself, I think my tweaks were good. I passed 400,000 words for the year late on 12/30 which was later than I'd hoped to but still pretty good. Though I struggled to meet it this year, I'm going to keep the 500,000 word goal for next year for two reasons:

I really was only 100k off from meeting it this year which is close enough to make me...