Do rewards work to motivate writing?

One of the most common writing tips is to give yourself small rewards for reaching goals. For example, having a piece of candy every 100 words. The thing with writing tips, though, is that they rarely work for everybody. I’ve tried this and it didn’t work for me at all. I suspect it might be

Writing digital text – through handwriting

I generally avoid writing by hand because having to rewrite everything by typing on the computer is a big waste of time that I prefer to do without. But writing with a pen feels so much more natural to me and the words flow so easily when I do. If only there was a way