words and inspiration

I'm still wasting time wondering if I am trying to make a piece of writing (although obviously dashed-off draft isn't the same thing as a proper piece of writing, of course) and trying to do the right NaNoWriMo thing and just chain myself to the computer, murder my Inner Editor, and type type type. My latest obsessive blog-reading-craze has been this place, where it says-

Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.

Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you're better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don't feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation. It's not really connecting, it's just droning on like an old, drunken barfly.

-which doesn't seem like good news at first glance. But the truth is, writing 50,000 words in one month along with thousands of other people is a weird thing to do. And it dawns on me that forcing oneself through an ordeal and drunken droning are quite mutually exclusive. If anything, this is the droning part...