hd_writers | Practice Corner

How to make the most out of your word wars, races, sprints, or any other fast paced times event.

Some of you do the word wars. Some go for the timed wars in chat. Or even the 100 in 60 challenge. No matter what you want to call it, they all have one thing in common, a challenge to get words out.

Here are a few tips to make the most of making your timed challenges

1. Try to keep the distractions to a minimum. TV, people, animals etc. You may not get to war for an hour, but if you're going for ten mins, making them the best ten minutes of writing you can.

2. Write!. Don’t spend it looking for that picture on tumblr or a song to download.

3. If you get stuck on a word, name, fact; mark it and highlight it. Come back for it in an edit war.

4. Don’t edit your work. If you’re timed, fixed the misspelling later. What harm is 10 minutes going to do?

5. Don’t compare your word counts to others. only got 300 words in and somebody pulling 700? Don’t worry about it! You got 300 words down! And it’s all in good fun.

See you in the chat room.