I was up way too early today.
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I think the value in the “magic spreadsheet” is not that writing 250 words a day for 20 days is more valuable than a 5000 word day, but that by participating, if you can do it, you ensure that every day involves at least 250 words. It’s a small enough number that you can’t as easily make excuses like not having a big enough block of time. You can always squeeze in time for 250 words.
… but … and here’s where I think the value is … if you sit down and write 250 words, what are the chances that you’ll really stop at 250? You might on a bad day, but on a good day you might get into the swing of it and write 2000. Or 5000. That same day, if you didn’t write any words you’d never realise it was a day you could grind the words out.
I’m not a writer, but I am a software engineer — and it absolutely applies in the very same way to writing software. Sometimes just opening the editor and writing something simple, fixing something easy, is what you need to get you in the groove and able to tackle something that seemed daunting.
The coefficient of static f[r]iction is higher then the coefficient of dynamic f[r]iction! 😉 Or: Inertia is a powerful force … but I like the other way of saying it better, especially with the opportunity for a horrendous pun.