[jraby3]

Writing can be therapy.

It can be a process where one learns by trying to explain it to someone else (the reader) so it helps to find holes in your argument or thinking.

It’s a tool used daily to communicate - arguably the greatest invention of mankind.

There are plenty of reasons to write.

[quanticle]

None of those things translate into a specific word count goal. That's the thing I'm specifically pushing back on here. Word count goals for a journal or blog or some other personal writing project make no sense. If you have to finish a book, and there's a specific deadline that you need to have that project done by, then a word count goal can be helpful in pushing you to make forward progress towards that objective. But for journaling? A word-count goal is a cargo-cult practice.