He also suggested answering all of these questions before you start a scene/sprint: (I've modified these a tad to suit myself)
Main characters: Bree and Evie
Time: 8 p.m. December
Place: Uncle Mitch's lab
Crux: Accidentally let loose a lab animal
Goal: Get Uncle Mitch's How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You experiment
Mood: Dark, tense
I also modified the sprint spreadsheet.
BOOK
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SPRINT MINUTES
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STARTING COUNT
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ENDING
COUNT
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DAILY COUNT
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MONTHLY COUNT
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DATE
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Witch Winter
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5
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0
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74
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6/22
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5
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132
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2664
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6/22
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|||
5
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84
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6/23
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||||
5
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160
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2132
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6/23
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|||
Here are the two sprints. (They're not very pretty. Writing fast does that.)
Morning:
The
creature stared at me with his unblinking yellow eyes, watching my every move,
as if he knew what I had in mind. I turned my back to him, grateful for the
bars that separated us.
“I
don’t think it has eyelids,” I said.
“Mmm,”
Bree muttered, keeping her gaze on the computer monitor. “Any luck?”
“No.
You?”
FIRST
ATTEMPT. 74 WORDS. PRETTY LAME. Trying again….
Afternoon:
I
stood in line, waiting to board the bus, my hands and feet cold, but my heart
warm. Mrs. Price’s compliments rang in my head, and despite the Connecticut
cold trying to slice through the layers of my sweater, jacket, mittens and
scarf, I felt warm and bubbly inside.
“Hey,
it’s Evie, right?”
I
turned to watch Meredith Olson swinging through the crowd, her long dark hair
bouncing around her shoulders. I only knew her by sight, as I was a lowly sophomore
and she was not only a senior, but also the editor in chief of the high school
newspaper. Or, in other words, the embodiment of everything I wanted to be.
Smart, popular, a person of influence…cause, yeah, being an editor of the
school newspaper carried a lot of clout.
Enjoyed your post. I don't count words as much as I count tasks. I get up early so I can write for an hour before I go to work. I find that if I write out a goal for the next day it helps me use my short amount of time better. I think I will add this post to my list to help me use my time even better. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI found this post as I've recently discovered Chris Fox's exercises and was looking to see what others thought. So far, I'm doing 30 minute sprints and that seems to be working for me quite well. Not sure about ever reaching 5000 words in an hour though! :)
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