It’s interesting, because I thought I’d tried just about everything to get myself writing faster and more regularly, but obviously I haven’t tried everything, because I tried something yesterday that’s working out pretty well (between yesterday and today) and I really don’t remember having tried it before (or at least in this way).
Here’s what I did (and am doing again today): I simply listed out the hours of the day (10–11, 11–12, etc.) and am running the timer during that time, accumulating as much time as I can, without any specific session lengths, with the goal of reaching 500 words for each hour in the day.
Yesterday I ended up with this:
|
Minutes |
Words |
Session |
WPH |
|
50 |
246 |
246 |
295 |
|
30 |
439 |
193 |
386 |
|
25 |
207 |
-232 |
-557 |
|
20 |
199 |
-8 |
-24 |
|
33 |
240 |
41 |
75 |
|
38 |
571 |
331 |
523 |
|
39 |
1138 |
567 |
872 |
|
31 |
1557 |
419 |
811 |
|
27 |
1894 |
337 |
749 |
|
22 |
2224 |
330 |
900 |
|
16 |
2270 |
46 |
173 |
|
12 |
2342 |
72 |
360 |
|
WPH |
410 |
||
|
Hours |
5.716667 |
Which really did not seem bad to me at all. If I hadn’t had such a slow start finishing/editing chapter 23, I would have done a lot better on my word count.
Today I’m doing the same thing as yesterday. I’ve had some interruptions and delays that I’m hoping won’t affect my day too much, in the end, but it remains to be seen how things are going to work out today. Overall, though, I’m really liking this structure around my writing. It’s loose in some ways but strict in others (I can’t change the fact that 11–12 and 12–1 have already passed and I got no writing done), and I like it.
Gotta go now, because I have a personal deadline I need to meet. I’ll post results for this informal little experiment in a follow-up post sometime later. :)