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May. 5th, 2010 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelUpside to 750words.com -- I spout most of my depressive emo crap there, and don't bother y'all with it.
Downside to same -- there are things that I mean to make entries out of, and forget, because I've already babbled about them some.
... It takes me usually a bit under 20 minutes to get to 750 words. (My fastest time so far is 15.) Which is a decent speed. (as an aside: I suspect that the person listed on the stats page as having finished in 3 minutes, may have perhaps 'cheated' -- not that there's anything that says you aren't allowed to either type stuff up before going to the web page, or type "a a a a a a" a buttload of times, but I seriously doubt that anyone can type 250 wpm. Anyway, back to talking about me, which is more important.) Not as fast as the last time I was tested, but a) that was back when I was touch-typing with both hands rather than using a freaking stick for about 5/8ths of the letters; b) correcting mistakes, which happen more often now, takes time; and c) I can go faster copying from existing material than pulling words out of thin air, even though the words don't have to mean anything.
Anyway. 20 minutes, from opening the web page to hitting the 750 mark. And I've been doing it, without missing a day, for a week so far.
And yet, when I sit down to actually /write/, I can't get anything out.
I am half tempted to shift to fiction writing for the 750words dump, except that won't give me a place to braindump all the flotsam. Sigh.
One of these days, I /will/ finish something...
Downside to same -- there are things that I mean to make entries out of, and forget, because I've already babbled about them some.
... It takes me usually a bit under 20 minutes to get to 750 words. (My fastest time so far is 15.) Which is a decent speed. (as an aside: I suspect that the person listed on the stats page as having finished in 3 minutes, may have perhaps 'cheated' -- not that there's anything that says you aren't allowed to either type stuff up before going to the web page, or type "a a a a a a" a buttload of times, but I seriously doubt that anyone can type 250 wpm. Anyway, back to talking about me, which is more important.) Not as fast as the last time I was tested, but a) that was back when I was touch-typing with both hands rather than using a freaking stick for about 5/8ths of the letters; b) correcting mistakes, which happen more often now, takes time; and c) I can go faster copying from existing material than pulling words out of thin air, even though the words don't have to mean anything.
Anyway. 20 minutes, from opening the web page to hitting the 750 mark. And I've been doing it, without missing a day, for a week so far.
And yet, when I sit down to actually /write/, I can't get anything out.
I am half tempted to shift to fiction writing for the 750words dump, except that won't give me a place to braindump all the flotsam. Sigh.
One of these days, I /will/ finish something...
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Date: 2010-05-06 05:16 pm (UTC)