Writers are always looking for ways to keep motivated. I find smaller word count goals are effective.

I used to have my session target set at 1000 but watching the bar go from red to yellow to green was so slow and depressing. Especially at the beginning of each session.

So, I did an experiment, I set the word count to 100. It took me 4 minutes to complete, and I type painfully slow. Sometimes I would be writing an exciting paragraph or two and the word count would be at 210 before I noticed.  If you do the math, 1000 words can be written in less than an hour.

How do you keep motivated when it comes to word count?