If you write a page a day.....

According to 365 Attempts (At Life), in order to overcome writer's block, she will write something every day for a year.  No matter what it is. I remember getting this kind of advice when I was writing my dissertation: if you write one page a day, at the end of the year you will have a 365-page monograph.  Same for "how to write a novel" - type books.

But who writes this way? I have the most over-revised first pages of a dissertation--happily, now a book--that ever existed, because it is impossible for me to sit down and NOT revise what I've already written.  Who can just write a page a day and run with it?

It might work for a certain kind of writer--one who isn't compulsive, and who can wait a whole year to revise. But would the writing make any sense? How would it help me overcome writer's block? Does it matter? At the end would I look through it and find a thread that links it together? Or would I just find Virginia Woolf's "diamonds in the dustbin"?

Thinking I might try it.