NaNo Sprinting

Purchasing a kitchen timer may well have been the best preparation I made for NaNo this year. I've been going in 20 minute sprints, which has been suiting me really well.

I've tried sprinting before, never before with this level of sucess.

The difference, I'm sure, is my kitchen timer.

It's a shiny metal half-sphere, and it looked okay inside the packet in K-mart, but I couldn't try it out, so I bought it and brought it home - but the first time I actually started it up, I just stared at it in dismay.

It ticked. Loudly. Three times a second, in fact, which kind of increases the urgent feeling even further.

Actually, it feels like sitting next to a small time bomb as I write, and at first I thought it'd be totally distracting - I don't deal with noise while I'm writing well at all.

But this is... fantastic. There's no way I'll forget I'm on the clock while it's on, with its frantic ticking. And I'm getting stuff written! Yay!

7795 words officially for the 3rd, though I didn't get the NaNo site updated quite in time. I'm now on 7825. Yes, I'm pedantic to want to give you both these figures.

Tomorrow... I'm going to crack 10,000! Easy.