This past Saturday I was dutifully plugging away at dissertation writing when I took a break and popped over to my twitter stream for a few minutes.  There I found several friends were also in the midst of Saturday writing projects.  One of them, Julie Meloni (@jcmeloni) had started a game of our parallel work, suggesting the we all “sprint” together to keep focused on our writing.  She tweeted:

Then at the top of the hour:

And after 30 more minutes:

We kept up in the same way (with 30min sprints and 15min in between) for most of the day. It didn’t matter that most of us were writing from different regions of the country, and were all working on different projects. When we checked in with Julie, she heartily congratulated each of our efforts.

This process kept me on task, kept me motivated, and make me feel as though every small increment of progress was worthy of celebration.

So…the next time you’ve got an afternoon of work ahead, drop me a line on twitter (@janaremy).  Perhaps we can sprint our way to the finish line together.

Tags: motivation, twitter, writing

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