Writing Help for Self

So, I've been watching some hard truths about writing and what I need to do is up my page count. I think I can do it if I give it a shot. I've also been watching more stuff by Brandon Sanderson and how he's an old-school gamer with stuff like Atari. He talks about how getting high scores in games and in writing is important to him which keeps him motivated to keep writing. As a gamer, I think I can do the same. I'm not going to write much more because I want to read but I feel like reading is to writing what playing games is to coding games. It's helpful but until you do the work you won't get something out of it. I wonder if I can put in the time and effort to make a good novel. And I've written several novel worth of books like my personal diary and the backlog I did of myself arguing with my inner critic. Those are at least a novel, if not more. But they aren't stories that I want to write, they're just practice. Sanderson talks about how he his most famous novel, Mistborn, was his seventeenth novel. Seventeen, my god that's a lot of words. Can I get to that level? I have to try but that means I'm going to have to give more time to writing as well. That means getting more comfortable writing. So the sooner I read that book on The Artist's Way, the better. God, change the situation or change me.