This is the summer of the stopwatch. Or, rather, the Summer of the Timer. My schedule is fully packed from the moment the alarm goes off until I close my eyes at night. My timer/stopwatch lives in my pocket (because I hate things on my wrist).For every activity I have a 15 minute countdown. Cleaning? Fifteen minutes. Writing? Fifteen minutes. Lunch? Fifteen minutes.
In fifteen minutes I can write 500 words. I can edit 1000. I can write one blog post. I can teach the first stanza of a poem by Maya Angelou.
I can do a lot in fifteen minutes. What can you do?
I hate wearing things on my wrist too... tight or loose, it irritates. :)
ReplyDelete@fifteen minutes - Hehe... depends on whether you tell me you are timing me or not. If I know I have fifteen minutes to write, then I know I would have BRAIN FREEZE and wouldn't be able to type a single word.
That said - if I'm just accounting for things I can do in 15 minutes, then yes...
1. I can cook supper in ten minutes
2. I can write 500 words in about 15 minutes. Probably more if I'm inspired, but averaging - yes, 500 in manageable.
About the word count, it's pretty sad when you consider how easy it would be to write 2000 words a day. It would only take an hour.
But most days I'm accumulating 5-800 word amounts total. And since I'm not exactly editing at this point, I can't use "cutting words" as an excuse for my lackness in the +column. :[
Way more than I want to think I can. LOL
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Cate - Anything loose on my wrist itches. I gave up on watches years ago because I kept losing them after I took them off in random places. And you have a good point about word count. I'm going to address that. :o)
ReplyDeleteJamie - I am shamed. I'm terrible about commenting on blogs right now. I'm very good at lurking, but commenting seems to be past my skill level. :o( I'll work on that one.