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My biggest writing productivity breakthroughs:

1. The Most Dangerous Writing App, in which you start a timed session and can't stop writing during that time—or it'll delete your progress. I now begin every writing session with a 10-minute timed freewrite.

2. The Chrome plugin Blocksite, which bars me from Reddit/Facebook/whatever my preferred timewasters are, at regular intervals, during the day.

Thanks to these two things, I finally finished a dissertation. Still am a procrastinator. But at least now I have tools to save myself from myself.

> 1000 words per hour? Holy shit, that's insane. The most I have achieved is 1000 in 3 and a half hours.

There's different techniques to boost your output. Basically, good typing skills are a must. I've had typing classes in school, and they paid off big time. Also, typing without your inner critic is the best typing. If you have trouble turning that off, try MDWA - it forces you to keep writing without going back over your stuff over and over.

http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/
It's a web app that forces you to continually type for a predetermined session length (3/5/10/20/30/60 mins) or word limit (75/150/250/500/1667 words). If you stop typing for more than five seconds, it deletes everything! It also has a hardcore mode that blurs out everything you've written until the end.

Perhaps breaking it down into the steps might help? First you have to brainstorm what stories or experiences might fit the prompt, then writing it, then editing. For writing, I would ask my mom or sibling to type as I talked out what I generally wanted to say, or record myself talking and type it up after. You could also use this writing app, which will delete your progress if you stop writing before a certain amount of time has passed or you've written enough words. It's important to get words on paper, because you can always edit. Write more than the suggested word count and cut it down, maybe write two or three versions if you're worried about making it perfect. In the end, colleges want to hear your voice, so get writing!

Freewriting!

For me, I think of freewriting in terms of improvisation. Start with a simple idea and see where you can take it. There are some great resources and info about long form improvising and improv theater. A lot of times, improv-ers will start with a word, location, phrase, whatever, and they build a scene around it. Sometimes they take that word and it inspires them to recall a personal true story of their own and then, afterwards they build a scene around that. Impov's normally geared towards comedy, but it doesn't mean you have to write comedy, there's no wrong answers in freewriting.

But if you want to just get in the habit of writing a quick couple pages every morning, just think of them as scenarios. Maybe they go somewhere, or maybe they don't. The important thing is you wrote!

http://www.can-i-get-a.com/ I use this website for suggestions on a scene to write

http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/ And I use this website to force it out of me. It's a lot of fun. (It's just a blank writing canvas but I tend not to care about formatting in freewriting, because you can always re-write later.)

The fun part, is I copy and paste all the most dangerous writing app stuff into a giant google doc, and after a while, all these 2-3 page scenes add up and it's kinda fun to go through and read, and get ideas from them.

Again, there's no wrong answers in freewriting! I think what you may be concerned about is having to put up with bad scenes. But that's just something you just have to live with. They ain't all gonna be winners, but hopefully there is a diamond in the rough.

Good luck!

For me, this app is everything.

I usually book at least 2K words per hour on it; a few 60-minute sprints with short breaks in between, 10K/days be cake. Low-level panic trumps my inner-editor every time - with or without flow state, muses, inspiration, etc. Of course whatever you draft will need a copyedit, but I'm always pleasantly surprised at how clean my prose comes out when I'm using the app.

I vote pants-it for anything under 35K, or at least limit your outline to one-sentence summaries of each chapter. Outlining works for me for novel-length stuff.

Good luck!

http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/

Use this. It actually helped me start writing my essay when I had no idea what to do. But in general too, just start writing something, because once you get in the flow, it usually goes well!

I've been using this tool for writing (no affiliation - I just like it): http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/

You set a timer (5-60 minutes) and start typing. If you stop for too long, it all disappears.

While writing isn't necessary for success, if you're looking to get into the habit (and get shit done), I've found this to be really helpful. I just do 5 minutes and then I have an idea for a blog (or another type of content) or just something that's been on mind all out on paper, so to speak.

Here are some tips that worked for me: * Create a thought map where you connect stories you want to tell with messages you want to get across (that you're smart, have overcome adversity, are passionate, are creative, have big dreams, whatever). You're not just telling a story, you're advertising yourself. * If you can't write, talk! Record yourself talking about the topic at hand and then go back and transcribe the good stuff. You will get more natural phrasing this way. You can also ask a parent/sibling/friend to type as you talk to do this. * Force yourself to write by using a timing app like (The Most Dangerous Writing App)[http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/help.html]. You have to keep writing or it'll delete what you have written.

Best of luck, and remember not to over edit. Your essays should sound like you!

1. Goal: 3,000 words. Actual: 2791 words. And now you know why I made this thread!
2. Thinking hard about how to better allocate time and not risk an hour or two of procrastination when working on various things without a deadline.
3. I use the pomodoro technique a lot and sometimes will just give myself a stupidly short timer, like 10 minutes on/10 minutes off just to overcome the resistance. The other thing that helps is to write about the thing I am supposed to be writing. The trick (for me) is not to try to start the writing but to just braindump what the plan is. This can help me get started or even find out what the problem is and why I'm not writing. I've recently found the Most Dangerous Writing App which I discovered on EA but find a bit scary for writing is really good for this kind of brain dump.

I'm wildly inconsistent with rituals (guess they aren't rituals then), but these are some ideas:

Chose clothes for writing only (whenever jobs demand working clothes it helps switching the mindset fast).

Start off the web (reading a few pages from stories in the same niche/tone on kindle.

Write a paragraph or even transcribe one on paper or computer, if you're strong enough to stay offline.

If you're rather producing ideas than text, follow up with pomodoros or www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com. The latter kicks in the adrenaline and the messy result may trigger you to clean up or pick a diamond in the rough).

Ooh thank you for posting this link! I’ll def be using that. I was also going to post a web tool for this: http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/

You set the amount of time you want to write for, and then once you start, you can’t stop for more than 5 seconds otherwise it deletes everything.

It’s super great for getting out offbeat sentences or phrases that sparkle when placed in a fairly standard/thought-out paragraph. :)

1)Goal of 3K, would love to hit 5K. I've been using themostdangerouswritingapp.com and can hit >1000 words in 20 minutes but with day job and other responsibilities it's been a little tough to set aside time and show up with fresh energy.

2)Still working on first novel and it feels kinda strange to be working on the same piece for so long, keeping up momentum (especially because I'm not getting paid for it any time soon) is a little difficult.

3)Kissing definitely started to get repetitive back when I was doing erotic shorts. But I just had my MCs kiss for the first time in my novel and I'm mostly making it about their thoughts and emotions and what's going on in the story- it's more about the circumstances and possible consequences of the kiss than physical act of kissing.

Guys I just found this beautiful little thing.

http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/

It's great for anyone suffering from writers block.

Basically, you set a time (you can set it for an hour holy shit.), and you have to keep typing for that amount of time. If you stop typing for 5 seconds, you "die" and all progress is lost.

Backspacing counts as not typing too.

Have fun... ?

Hi u/admissionsmom, thank you for the advice! I have a memory I want to write about, so I did what you said and I decided to write a shit essay based on that memory on www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com and I was able to get some things out of it. The problem is, I have all the pieces of what happened in the memory, but how do I put myself in it? Am I supposed to reflect on a bigger picture? So far, I feel like if I wrote my essay right now, I only have the memory taking over most of the essay, leaving out little space for parts that give an insight to who I am. I'll try to read up on more advice in this subreddit, as well as the websites you provided. Thank you for pointing me in a general direction for a start!

Set a timer, maybe practice with something like this: http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com. I set a timer for 30 minutes when I am going to write, and keep going if I am in the zone, if not I take a few minutes to walk or do pushups, etc. then try another 30. Kind of like the pomodoro method but I like 30 instead of 25.

I have a solution to this! It's called The Most Dangerous Writing App. If you stop writing for more than a few seconds at a time, it deletes all your work. The panic it induces feels just like a close deadline!