Nano Day 17

Today's Words: 1971
Month to Date: 26037
 
I didn't want to write today. At all. But I did.
 
The funny-peculiar-notable part of it was that even feeling less than rah-rah-write, and starting out doing just a word here, a phrase there, hardly trickling forth verbally, I clocked my 2K-ish words in about the same time I have all month (2-3 hours).
 
Was it a good day of writing? Or a bad day? I don't know.
 
In the financial industry there's a concept/strategy called "dollar cost averaging". If you're not familiar with the concept, here's the definition from Wikipedia:
 
Dollar cost averaging (DCA) is an investment strategy … [that] takes the form of investing equal monetary amounts regularly and periodically over specific time periods (such as $100 monthly) in a particular investment or portfolio. By doing so, more shares are purchased when prices are low and fewer shares are purchased when prices are high. The point of this is to lower the total average cost per share of the investment, giving the investor a lower overall cost for the shares purchased over time.
 
I think of myself as practicing "prose quality averaging". That is, so long as I write every day (or nearly every day), I'll be producing good (or better) prose at least as often as I produce low (or worse) quality prose. With the result that my "average prose quality" will be somewhere between the two extremes–and trending upwards. Or, to put it another way, my good days will offset my bad days, and (maybe) I'm getting better over time.
 
Which is why, even on days when I don't want to write, if I'm supposed to be writing, I at least give it a shot.
 
-David