The Trick That Changed How I Write

About a year ago, I was officially diagnosed with Chronic Intractable Migraine after about eight months of various doctors, tests, and medicine. In layman’s terms, it means that I constantly have a headache. All-day. Every day.

This has dramatically affected how I write. Honestly, there are days when I hate it. Long gone are the times when I could plop into my desk chair and write for hours on end and crank out thousands of words at a time.

Brian fog has killed that.

One of the biggest challenges I’ve had to overcome as a writer is finding a way to bring my productivity back to around my former levels. Everything I tried had little to no success. Then NaNoWriMo came around and I accidentally stumbled upon a trick that changed the game for me forever.

I discovered Word Sprints.

Before, I’d tried them to various degrees of success. But this time around, it changed the game for me.

In case you haven’t tried them before, let me tell you a little bit about Sprints. The basic idea is that you set a timer and you write for a set amount of time. With a timer on your mind, your inner editor is a bit quieter as you seek to push yourself to crank out as many words before time runs out.