I had run through similar numbers when I had thought about this before. But if this had something to say about 2012, I still wasn't seeing it.

Tuck kept going wherever he was going with this. "When you have a daily target to focus on, you set your intentions on that goal. And those intentions become their own kind of consciousness, in a way separate from your own. At 500 words, you've just gotten started. At 1,000 words, you're halfway done. At 1,500 words, the end of the day is in sight, and your momentum pulls you forward towards the finish line. At that point, there's no way you're not getting to 2,000 words."

Not seeing the point, but still not wanting to interrupt, I let Tuck continue with his train of thought.

"If you write 2,000 words a day, every day, you'll write your 50,000 word novel in a mere 25 days. Furthermore, it will turn out far better than you could have ever expected it to. But there's no reason in the world your daily word count has to be 2,000. That's just an arbitrary number, nothing more than a nice round figure to focus on."

I couldn't wait any longer. "Sorry Tuck, I'm trying to be patient, but you've just used 2,000 words to apparently take us right back to where we started. Can you please make your point now?"

Unfazed, Tuck concluded, "The point is that while the number itself doesn't mean anything, your subjective interpretation of that number is what gives it its power. Focusing on writing 2000 words a day breathes life into a novel. And believing that the year 2012 is important causes it to become important. When you look for meaning in something, you don't just find it. You create it."

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