Join Me For a SPRINT!

My kids and their cousins lining up for sack races at their grandparents’ house over the weekend.

For those of you who follow MMW on facebook, I posted last week about a little writing “sprint” I did with Julie Coulter Bellon over at her blog. The way it works is like this: You come over to the blog at a designated time, prepared to write. You leave a comment on the post about the sprint (“Hey y’all! I’m in!”) and then start working on your WIP (that’s right, don’t go check facebook or e-mail- it’s SPRINT time!). Write as many words as you can for 15 minutes, then go check in by leaving a comment on the post again, this time with your word count (“I just did 300 words. Go me!”). Then write for another 15 minutes and come check in again (“Up to 573 now- whew!”).  You’ll do two more sessions of 15 minutes- making an hour total- and come back at the end with your total word count for the hour (“1,236 words! Woohoo!”).

I wasn’t so sure about this, but I decided to give it a shot because I knew I was going to have a busy weekend and I didn’t want to fall short of my weekly goal of 3,000 words. Well, I managed over 1600 words in a single hour! I was pretty surprised! And it brought me within 200 words of my goal for the week, so I was very pleased. I also enjoyed checking back in and seeing others’ comments about how they were doing- a little competition never hurt anyone, right?

So...let’s do it!


Let’s meet back here at this post at 10pm EST (that’s 8pm for all you Utahns- throw those kids in bed and get back over here, I’m doing it late so you can join us!) tonight (Monday) and leave a comment to let me know you’re in. We’ll write for 15 minutes, then check in at 10:15 (/ 9:15/ 8:15/ 7:15, depending on your time zone) and share our progress. We’ll continue doing that every 15 minutes till our hour is up. It goes by quickly, believe me!

I’m so excited!

Anybody ready to SPRINT with me??