 Day Eleven–and we’re still going strong!Posted by Elisa Beatty Jan 20 2011, 3:01 am Word is spreading about the mighty, mighty power of our chat room writing sprint sessions, and the Rubies have been adding more. If you haven’t dropped by the chat rooms yet, check out the scheduled writing sprint times in the big blue box on the left-hand side of the Home page. To join in a sprint, just click on “chat room” in that same blue box, or click on CONNECT on the main bar along the top of the Home page. Sessions are very friendly, and newbies are welcomed warmly! The moderator will be there to greet you at the top of the hour, encourage some everybody-get-comfy chatting for about ten minutes, then set the timer for 20 minutes of full-on writing madness. Keep the chat room window open but minimized on your desktop while you write in your word processing program, and the moderator will signal you when 20 minutes is up. After each sprint, there’s another 10 minute breather for unwinding, chatting, and jubilation over the progress you made. And then another 20-minute sprint begins. Try to enter at the hour or half-hour, but if you come in part-way through a sprint, the moderator will quickly greet you, then get back to her own sprinting. You’d be amazed what the focused energy of other writers–even writers typing on other continents–will do for your output! Don’t be shy! Try a sprint today! 18 Responses to “Day Eleven–and we’re still going strong!”Leave a Reply |
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Wanted to remind everyone we have a smokin resource page. If anyone wants to brainstorm or chat about writing I can set up something in the chat room.
I had a great night last night. I did my first Writing Sprint and I wrote a total of 384 words on another WIP, which is a record for me. I’ll be there again tongiht. It really helped to jump start my mind.
Again so glad I signed up for this Festival!
Yay! Glad it’s helping you. I’ll look for you tonight!
The writing sprints are amazing. I can generally get about 500 words in the 20 minutes, when normally on my own it takes me twice that long to get that many words. It’s what I look forward to every day!
Dara, I got up early for Vivi’s sprints this morning, and in one of them I got 800 words! Oh my goodness…I decided my intenal editor must have still been asleep. Might have to do that again sometime.
OT, but have to brag that I think I finished my WIP!
The last few weeks have been a real slog and I am more than ready to move on. (Yes, I know, it needs lots of revising, but time enough for that later, when I can look at it with fresh eyes.)
So, today I can celebrate finishing, and tomorrow I can celebrate starting the new story that’s been tugging at me for ages now. Yay!
Awesome Nancy! Congratulations!!!
Way to go, Nancy!
Yes, Nancy!!! Nothing like the feeling of writing THE END!!! (Especially when there’s a new seed sprouting at the same time.)
Just a little reminder that I’m giving away an Advanced Reader Copy of WELCOME TO LAST CHANCE to any non-ruby who posts a comment on the RSS blog today.
Come over and join the pitty party. We’re blogging about our failures over there, so we can better brag about our successes over here.
Met my goal again! This is so much fun, and it’s keeping me accountable. Thanks, Ruby Sisters for doing this!
I can’t say enough good things about the writing sprints! I don’t know what it is, maybe the tight focus, the camaraderie, the magic of us being there together, but this has helped me get through revisions that I needed out yesterday! Thanks Rubies! Love it!
Awesome! And missed you in there early this morning
I hve yet to participate in the chat room – being in the UK I’m either sleeping, eating or seeing to my animals!
I can see some times over the next three days when I should be able to make it, even if only for one or two sessions. I’ll try, anyway!
Hywela, tell us what time would be good for you, and we’ll see if we can get anything lined up. I tried to get a few more in there for different times, but if we knew definite good times for others, that would be awesome!
Made goal!
Lost two hours today searching (in vain, as it turned out) for my camera, so I’ll take it, even at a quarter to ten. Sorry I missed out on the sprints tonight. Looking forward to checking out some daytime sprints tomorrow. 
Plugged away and hit my 1,000 words. Didn’t think I would make it, with a school project for my son due tomorrow and the printer running out of ink. But I am still a little behind, especially if I consider the fact that I cut the first chapter of my new WIP (moved it acutally, to a file called notes) but I realized i started too soon, with too much backstory dump. Still needs to get out there, just not in the first 20 or so pages. So I started with “chapter 2″ and I think it will be a much better start. Wonder where the story will actually start when I am through with it?
Hi Kim – thanks so much! I think we’re about five hours ahead of Eastern time in the UK, so I can try and fit in with any time between about 6 am and 7 pm your time most week days.
I have horses (kept some way away) a dog and a husband, and my personal ‘schedule’ can go ‘to pot’ sometimes. I’m usually off-line for three or four hours after 12.30 noon your time, but apart from that I can be fairly flexible.
I think you’ve done a fantastic job with the chat room schedule – I hadn’t checked the times recently, and actually Saturday. Sunday and Monday should be ‘doable’ for me, (between 10am and 12 pm your time is perfect.) I run an intereactive blog on Friday afternoons, but I’m going to try and pop into the chat room for at least an hour, before it gets going. Most of the ‘chatrooms’ on the groups I belong to in the US, start between 7 and 9 pm your time, which is after midnight with us.
Sorry, I should have checked before posting, I hadn’t realized what a range of times you actually have. I’m revising my NaNo story, so it’s not a case of getting a specified word count done in the time, it’s committing myself to revising and rewriting, without allowing myself to be distracted by emails, blogging, etc.
Thanks again.
Lyn (Hywela is Welsh and Lyn is much easier to type. They’re both my real first names but I’ve always been called by my second name.)