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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.