Accountability in Writing

…by which I really mean accountability in goal-setting. I suppose it's possible to talk about other ways in which an artist can be accountable (to his audience, to his family, to his ideals), and that actually sounds like a pretty interesting topic, but it's not the one I want to talk about right now.

I'm talking about accountability as a writing tactic–as a way of making yourself accountable for a certain amount of work. I've been struggling with my current manuscript of late, not because...