I hit a huge month long wall and was about to put it aside when I decided to compare how far I got compared to past failed attempts.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I usually reserve counting for when the work was done (and even then I tend to forget anyway).
The result was both highly distressing and somehow motivating. The former for wasting thousands of pages of notes instead of actually writing, the latter for proving all my stupid techniques to actually get shit to paper has been actually working.