Writing Sprints: My First Week’s Results

Always open to trying a new thing, I thought I’d give writing sprints a shot. Battling tiredness and day-to-day demands on my time, I was looking at ways to increase my productivity without making writing a soul-sucking experience.

Writing Sprints was the answer. Setting my ipad to let off an alarm after 30 minutes, I plugged in my earphones and cranked up the Spotify. The results? Well, you can see for yourself:

Starting Word Count: 22,000 words

SUNDAY 17TH MAY

Writing Sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 438 words – New Total 22,438 words

Writing Sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 639 words – New Total 23,077 words

Writing Sprint 3 – 30 minutes – 633 words – New Total 23,710 words

Writing Sprint 4 – 30 minutes – 690 words – New Total 24,400 words

Writing Sprint 5 – 30 minutes – 518 words – New Total 24,918 words

MONDAY 18TH MAY

Writing Sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 745 words – New Total 25,663 words

Writing Sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 867 words – New Total 26,530 words

Writing Sprint 3 – 30 minutes – 1,070 words – New Total 27,600 words

Writing sprint 4 – 30 minutes – 476 words – New Total 28,076 words

TUESDAY 19TH MAY

Writing sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 338 words – New Total 28,414 words

Writing sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 713 words – New Total 29,127 words

Writing sprint 3 – 30 minutes – 372 words – New Total 29,499 words

Writing sprint 4 – 30 minutes – 697 words – New Total 30,196 words

Writing sprint 5 – 30 minutes – 138 words – New Total 30,334 words

WEDNESDAY 20TH MAY

Writing sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 944 words – New Total 31,278 words

Writing sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 757 words – New Total 32,035 words

THURSDAY 21ST MAY

Writing sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 965 words – New Total 33,000 words

Writing sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 675 words – New Total 33,675 words

FRIDAY 22ND MAY

Writing sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 569 words – New Total 34,244 words

Writing sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 502 words – New Total 34,746 words

Writing sprint 3 – 30 minutes – 330 words – New Total 35,076 words

Writing sprint 4 – 30 minutes – 494 words – New Total 35,570 words

SATURDAY 23RD MAY

Writing sprint 1 – 30 minutes – 703 words – New Total 36,273 words

Writing sprint 2 – 30 minutes – 788 words – New Total 37,061 words

Writing sprint 3 – 30 minutes – 939 words – New Total 38,000 words

Writing sprint 4 – 30 minutes – 951 words – New Total 38,951 words

Writing Sprint 5 – 30 minutes – 905 words – New Total 39,856 words

Writing Sprint 6 – 30 minutes – 412 words – New Total 40,268 words

All told I managed to write 18k in a week. That’s a personal best for me. Previously my best was writing 20k in 10 days. I can only imagine that, given an extra 3 days, I would’ve beat even that. BUT I wanted to make it a week (7 day) thing, to see the results.

‘In Her Skin’, my work in progress, has gone from the beginnings of a novel to being on its way to getting finished. In a week.

So there you are. That’s results for you!