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Works for me. Bring the PF down to my level: I’m too polite to do it myself, besides it’d just be pap and his momentum would carry him over it.
See? Pigfender and momentum.
Also new to the forum and Scrivener, made the jump form evernote and being doing all my scribblings by hand or just in word (open office actually) 
on my mac and also using whiteboards etc to do my mind mapping and planning, need to see if Scrivener has a similar platform.
Started playing with it by loading in my planning and outlines of a novel I am working on, fingers crossed
Ray Bradbury was a big fan of word count, his target was also 1000 words a day… everyday…
He said in one of his books: throw words on paper, as if you are throwing crumbs at birds 
Welcome aboard!
If whiteboards help your thinking, you might like the freeform cork board in Scrivener. Even better, you might like Scrivener’s younger sibling, Scapple - designed to act exactly like a whiteboard (or, apparently, a napkin - presumably for those who don’t on such a big scale).
Most of the work of an author of fiction is not writing but imagining – a constructive engagement with her imaginal faculties.
If your effort is to “show up” more in the mode of (would-be) author, I suggest that you develop for yourself other ways of doing and measuring this than writing (word count).
That constructive engagement with one’s imaginal faculties – to visit and revisit the same imaginal episodes and reform and expand and deepen them – requires a lot of external support. Authors develop methods and practices, and use many devices for doing this – sticky notes, corkboards and yarn, notebooks, outlines, etc. These are all devices for holding an enormously elaborate imagining in place, so you may return there and continue your creative work. (Scrivener and Scapple are, of course, designed to support and assist in many of these associated creative processes.)
You do not want to be a writer – copyists are writers – what you want, I ween, is to be an author. And so you should think about what other sorts of methods and concrete practices you can and should be engaging in to “show up” in that space.
–Greg
Haven’t visited the site in a while so apologies for the late response.
I kept the 1000 words thing going for a couple of months and my productivity definitely went up, as it would, but I also found it helped me get into the correct head space and, when I did sit down to start my writing for the day, it became much easier to get the flow going. I managed to finish the first draft of my thriller, and complete a few short stories.
As we stand now I don’t stick rigidly to the word count every day, but as little bit of an experiment it was definitely worth it, and now writing (or brainstorming, editing etc.) has become an important part of my week, where as before it was a little bit wishy washy where I would dip in and out of it. Now, if I’m not pushing a project on (and I know in my head if I’ve been lax), I feel guilty about it.
So, worth it for me in the long run (so far anyway). I appreciate what others are saying about getting into the headspace and being an author not a writer, and I understand what you are saying, but I felt like I was just a wanna-be author before, and at least now I have something to show for it.
Each to their own I guess - find what works for you and give it your all.
Yay you! 
I feel kinda slow now 
Again, yay you!
Something that I found useful when editing was to set myself a page or word target. That is, edit X-pages or write Y-words. With my thesis, it was 5 pages (I had a print out and would read the pages then make the edits in Scrivener) or 500 words (because sometimes I needed to add new sections). Then again, I’m a pathological tinkerer, so I needed the incentive to keep up momentum.
Do let us know when you finish your novel and if, no make that when, your stories are published.
Okay, so I don’t know if this answers your question, but I felt so victorious for discovering this. If you go to the outline view and highlight a number of pages/subpages, and then right click, at the bottom of that menu you will see a word count for those pages/sections. Yay! This is what I needed for my word count tracking for NaNoWriMo.
You can also use Project --> Show Project Targets in the folder. I even customized my toolbar so I’d have it handy. You can set your daily word count goal and it will keep track of words added and deleted from midnight to midnight (a full 24 hour period) where it will then reset and begin the count again. The icon for it is the archer’s target looking one. Hope that helps.
