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Double Your Word Count: A Sprint Game
I cannot take credit for this idea–I read it somewhere on the NaNo forums last year, and since they’re wiped yearly the post I saw is long gone. Someone awesome who isn’t me came up with this, but I love it and want to share it.
Here’s what you do:
Set a timer for 5 minutes and sprint. Record your word count–I played this morning and got 188 words.
Okay, double that to set your goal for the next sprint, 10 minutes. I needed 376 words; I actually wrote 481. Go me!
Double that (my new goal is 962) and do a 20-minute sprint. Oops! I failed the first time, and only wrote 870 words.
If you fail at the goal, you have to try again instead of doubling. My second try: a measly 737. I was getting tired.
I took a break and did some tumblring, then tried a third time.
After a while, I realized I hadn’t actually started my timer, when I thought “Shouldn’t it have gone off by now?” and saw it sitting at 0:00.
But I’d written 1,443 more words, bringing my total for the day to almost 4K. Success, even if I wasn’t actually playing the game anymore.
(If I had reached that goal, the next step would be to double it and do a 40-minute sprint–I’ve tried that twice before and never managed to make it. Fatigue sets in for me, and my most effective writing-time length seems to be 15-20 minutes max, if I’m going for speed. Give it a try, certainly, to see if it works for you!)
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Dear gringos who don’t know shit about what’s going on in Venezuela (or the rest of latin america) and are defending Nicolás Maduro like he’s an innocent victim: I’d like to remind you that it costs 0 dollars to keep your mouths shut
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The amount of people that believe that Nicolas Maduro was chosen democratically baffles me. All elections since 2004 have been rigged to keep this government in power. I’ve seen ballot boxes be burned, I’ve seen the government use the identification numbers of dead people to get more votes.
A third of the Venezuelan crowd eats once a day.
Last time I spoke to my grandmother, she told me she hadn’t been able to take a shower in ten days because she didn’t have water.
My father got robbed more times than I can count when we still lived there.
My father, when I was accepted in the most recognised university of Venezuela (UCV — which is HIS university too), told me he didn’t want me to go because he feared for my life.
During my last two years of high school, almost every month someone I knew was either going to a goodbye party or leaving the country themselves. I went to the airport four times the summer I left.
My brother had to drop out of university in the middle of his course because he couldn’t get there due to lack of transportation.
Millions of kids and teenagers have left their school because they can’t afford it. Teenagers around my age (16 at the time) would come up to my dad to ask him for bread.
Children and elders die of malnutrition every day. And if you don’t die of starvation, you die due to sicknesses.
You can’t find basic products, and if you can you can’t afford them. When I went to school at five in the morning, I’d already seen a bunch of people lined up in the supermarkets to see what was arriving. Sometimes they didn’t even know, but they made the line either way.
If you don’t live in the capital, there’s a chance your light gets cut off on the daily for hours.
If you study in the capital, there’s a chance your classes get stopped at least once a month unless you go to a private university.
During the riots of 2017, over a hundred people died in the span of three months. Thousands were injured.
If you ask any Venezuelan, 98% will tell you they’ve lost someone they know to the insecurity of our country.
My aunt had a gun pointed at her for her phone, and she was lucky she made it to walk away from that because the majority wind up dead.
When I went on Instagram an hour ago, I found out people from my home town are being shot IN THEIR OWN HOMES.
You think we chose this?
Think again.
The government of Nicolas Maduro isn’t legitimate. That man has more blood on his hands than any politician I’ve seen on the news. He deserves to go to prison and rot in there to pay for all the deaths and suffering he’s caused.
So when we hear the word “coup”, we think “ FINALLY” because we’ve been fighting for too long. I was born into this dictatorship. It’s the only government I ever knew.
What Venezuelans want is for their votes to matter, for their voices to be heard, for their loved ones to return.
What Venezuelans want is peace.
So give us fucking peace.
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Watch: Kristen Bell opens up about the mental health double standard and how she manages her own struggle.
Follow @this-is-life-actually
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I remember that a while ago you shared a website where someone had taken a lot of mythological sea creatures and made realistic adaptations for then, and now I can't find it again even after looking through your blogs. Would you happen to remember it/have the link?
Was it this, perchance?
http://seademons.weebly.com/
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gays, i have an important question:
are you a sword gay, knife gay, battle axe gay, or a bow n arrow gay
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help a baby girl get some medicene
this is a small fundraiser to help afford an allergy shot for my cat rose. shes a good girl and gets nasty rashes on her backside which causes excessive itching. any penny helps. a full vet bill is 250$
if you cant donate pls consider a reblog
http://paypal.me/essiecatter
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Y'all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other
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