AmbreaTaddy
Your Local Strange French Woman
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Hi !
So on this French forum for authors we used to do this thing everyday called Word Wars. It's half a game and half a productive race. The rules are simple : You have 15 minutes to write as much as possible, and after 15 minutes we stop and compare who wrote more. It's just a dumb thing.
That helped a lot with productivity though. We used to announce "Word War in 3 minutes, at h20 !" and when the clock showed 20 minutes, the forum would go silent, everyone working on their projects, writing the next chapter of their novel, and then stop 15 minutes later, compare, congratulate the winner, and start again a few minutes later.
It may be a dumb thing, but productivity would soar everytime we did that, and I miss it a bit. It's hard to start doing something, but when you have an appointement with others for a small competition, it's easier to actually start writing. And oftentimes after doing 1 word war, you feel it's too bad to just stop there, you were just getting in the mood, and you have to finish that sentence anyway, so you continued even afterwards.
Now that I'm not on this forum anymore, I sometimes do Word Wars with myself, congratulating myself for a good word count, or putting on a playlist in the background and challenging myself to finish the chapter before the end of the playlist. It's not the same, but I get that same 'starting up' pressure that pushes me to write.
And you, do you have your techniques ? Do you know Word Wars or other author games ? If authors are interested, I can suggest a few events that would help collaborative writing (or solitary writing in collaboration)
So on this French forum for authors we used to do this thing everyday called Word Wars. It's half a game and half a productive race. The rules are simple : You have 15 minutes to write as much as possible, and after 15 minutes we stop and compare who wrote more. It's just a dumb thing.
That helped a lot with productivity though. We used to announce "Word War in 3 minutes, at h20 !" and when the clock showed 20 minutes, the forum would go silent, everyone working on their projects, writing the next chapter of their novel, and then stop 15 minutes later, compare, congratulate the winner, and start again a few minutes later.
It may be a dumb thing, but productivity would soar everytime we did that, and I miss it a bit. It's hard to start doing something, but when you have an appointement with others for a small competition, it's easier to actually start writing. And oftentimes after doing 1 word war, you feel it's too bad to just stop there, you were just getting in the mood, and you have to finish that sentence anyway, so you continued even afterwards.
Now that I'm not on this forum anymore, I sometimes do Word Wars with myself, congratulating myself for a good word count, or putting on a playlist in the background and challenging myself to finish the chapter before the end of the playlist. It's not the same, but I get that same 'starting up' pressure that pushes me to write.
And you, do you have your techniques ? Do you know Word Wars or other author games ? If authors are interested, I can suggest a few events that would help collaborative writing (or solitary writing in collaboration)
