Okay, so Anne was right--setting a time to start may be good, but setting a finishing time to write up until is potentially demoralizing. A very perceptive judgement from a fellow writer. =)

But it worked! I sat down and told myself "At the stroke of 12:30pm, you are not going to proctrastinate, you are going to write. And it can all be bad, really bad. Let it be really bad, okay? If you try to edit while you write, you will not have Thai food for a month, understand? Keep writing until it becomes counterproductive."

So I did. And I got a good 2,000 words out of it. Better than that, I've almost nailed down an elusive character portrait of this old woman in my story that's supposed to be sweet and accidentally evil at the same time. Trickier than I thought.

I have my one little victory. Now I need to shoot for regularity, especially when my two hours consists of staring at my computer screen and wanting to die.

Thank you to everyone for all the encouragement and living good example-filled lives. I know that you don't do it for me, but I get lots out of it nonetheless.