The Blog to Nowhere

I can understand the worries about 'just writing crap to meet the quota', and occasionally I feel it in my own writing, but nonetheless I don't consider it useless, compared to not writing at all. Even when you're writing material for the quota, often it's stuff that you can either revise later and turn into something not bad, or, even if you do want to throw it out later, it can help you overcome the psychological hurdle of getting from point A to B if, like me, you're a more linear writer who can't just skip ahead a chapter without writing your way there. If the crap at Chapter B gets your to write C, and C works, even if you have to completely throw out B and then later modify C to match, it can be well worth it.