Timer Length Time Worked What Accomplished Sprint 1 45 41 read elements of fiction Sprint 2 45 37 started detangling hair (this is a big job lol) Sprint 3 0 0 N/A Sprint 4 0 0 N/A Totals: 90 78
Timer Length Time Worked What Accomplished Sprint 1 20 12 emails finished on a stream before I watched this. total emails left: 4859, shower, read audiobook Sprint 2 50 49 finished 100 ways audiobook, started next book Sprint 3 20 16 kept reading Elements of Fiction, updated accomplishments sheet Sprint 4 0 0 N/A Totals: 90 77
This looks so good. 😭 I love a structure system, especially one that looks so organized. I hope it works for you! I’m super impressed and definitely intrigued to see how it goes!! 💖
This is my first time coming across one of your videos, and what a serendipitous find. This is an excellent resource for writers who need help building structure and order into their process, without restricting them completely. Allowing enough room for free-form expression and improvisation. Would you consider selling this? It's so helpful.
I'm excited for you! I've never seen a notebook as organized and helpful as the one you've created. It will be fun to watch you use it while writing your book.
I was thinking of doing something similar, but had not put the amount of thought into it yet that you have. Thank you for sharing your journey and being an inspiration! I will be working along planning and plotting over the next few months as well, so I will check in as you post new videos.
I am so impressed by your project folder. Wow. I need to try the timeline charts. My energy spoons are much more limited these days, so I won't try to do the whole thing. B/c I automatically plunge into the story after one paragraph of whatever I intended to do (character history, world building, whatever). You are constantly amazing me. So happy for you!
Timer Time Worked What Accomplished Sprint 1 30 63 Worked on emails- starting emails (8,344 in inbox) Sprint 2 30 0 Emails Sprint 3 30 18 Emails, and some random unproductive stuff Sprint 4 0 0 N/A Totals: 90 81
I'm kind of doing a variation on this. I'm using the replay streams from this challenge, but instead of doing them over 90 days, i'm doing them whenever I want and trying hopefully to get them done by the end of Q3. If not, I will keep doing them until I finish. I will be working on whatever I feel like, writing or otherwise. I will try to post my stats for fun and for the engagement and note what i was doing during the sprints. I have a whole spreadsheet and a page in my bujo lol. Starting today.
@@SarahCahillWrites im using little google sheets tables to keep track each stream. i will just post them in the comments and then give you a list of all my accomplishments if they are significant lol
The crafty witch in my brain heard quest board and automatically wanted to make a board (corkboard with frame) to nail (thumbtack) quests to. I had the whole idea to create a bunch of tea-stained pages in order to write my quests on and ad rewards at the bottom for completed and turned in quests. Maybe even have my kids help out and have them write "punishments" for failed quests such as doing their chores for a week or something. I love your quest board! That's such a brilliant idea!
I think it's awesome you did this! I can't imagine focusing on a single project for 90 days straight. I do love the consistency though, and the next time you attempt this, I might be in a place where I'm ready to *try* sticking to a single project for 90 days... Maybe...
I like the idea of "quests". A goal for me is something I will have to reach. It's focused on the end point. "Quest" for me feels like focussing on the way. It's more like "What I am about to do" and not "What I will have to have finished by day X". Sounds like a very healthy approach.
I just want to tell you that I think you're incredible! You did 90 minutes a day for 90 days straight. That in and of itself is phenomenal and you did it! Congratulations Sarah! And bonus is that we got to write or work right alongside you. Thank you for sharing this challenge with us. Don't forget to take care of yourself Sarah ❤❤
My bestie might have ADHD (waiting on diagnosis etc) and shes really found pomodoro to work for her, and shes finally getting things done which is a big win for her. Good to see there are others that might help!
I think you did wonderfully with the 90 90 1 challenge but I get family and such making so you can't do it all the time. I'm in the midst if rewrites and I'm with you not as fun as drafting 😅
I think you did incredibly well, it was a marathon not a sprint, and you did that figuring out what works for you and with a busy family life! I had to drop out coz while I was trying to push through, I got too ill. I can't wait for the next big idea to hit me, I'm so itching to write something NEW again, no matter how much I love the characters and the stories, at this point they are all rewrites/edits etc I've been working on for years. But I need my words and brain back too, ugh. Anyway, well done you and everyone else who were writing along and seeing you next time 💙🐾
Okay, I did the math and during the 90 days, I wrote (including rewrites) 112,465 words! This was an awesome challenge and I'm so in awe of you for not only writing every day for 90 days, but streaming every day! I hope you take a nice long break!
Side quest tiiiiiiime \o/ I find it so difficult to write the main character and not have them be bland, but I don't have much experience with it, arrgh. Good luck with your side quest! Gather all that extra experience! P.S. I love the haircut!
Im doing revisions right now for one project, and about to finish drafting my last two of those for a while, and past me added two more revision projects on top. I do not like past me right now 😅
Burnout sucks, It really does. Like I'll have this certain idea for a new story and when I finally get time to open a doc, I can't write it down. I feel blocked from what I'm doing. I feel blocked from writing because so many other writers have written the same story, it feels like mines just another thing to add to the growing collection of Paranormal horror. Sorry for the long comment
I love this! Too many people are saying that writers should write something ‘original’ but that’s impossible. What no one realizes, is that you have to take a concept and add a twist (or several) to make it unique, relevant, and relatable.
AuADHD here… totally relate.. a trick that maybe can help with the new scenes on Draft 3… go back to Draft 2 and write them there, and then go ask to draft three to improve them to the quality that you want… your brain is going to be ok with the new scene not being draft 3 quality, because is going to be on draft 2 document… brains are dumb sometimes and you can trick them xD.
Also… I have like 6 places where I save things… what I did was to take pictures of the notes that I want to keep and save them as a pdf that you can add to whatever app you use for your drafts.
And also (sorry for so many comments) I just watched Searching for Samantha class on outlining (also adhd) and what she does make sense for me… is a progressive outline… so goes from brain dump to specifics of the genre, but little by little so, I think is going to work for my “I don’t want to outline” mode that I’m in…
Great video topic. I loved the part about writing advice. I take just one thing into account, be engaging and entertain the reader. I love the idea that anything goes as long as a writer accomplishes that. And it inspires me to work hard to get there myself.
Sarah, I loved this video so much and I could not agree with you more on pretty much everything you said. Hell, even though I ascribe to reading something every day, I don't necessarily believe that you have to read every single day, it just happens that I feel off if I don't personally but to say someone isn't a good writer because they don't is absolutely crazy. Also, I learned a very long time ago that writing every day does lead me to burnout very quickly so yeah, I stopped ascribing to that one quite some time ago as well. I think any advice you take as a writer, or just in life generally should be tailored to what works best for the kind of person you are and how your brain best operates. I for one think that you are doing a fabulous job. You do a lot, and your story ideas are amazing and the few snippets I have heard of your work, I know I for one can't wait to have your books on my shelves, whenever you're ready of course lol. You keep being the fabulous creative that you are and make your own path. Again, loved the video. Take care Sarah! ❤
Fully agree on everything! Show don't tell - I came from the other end, showing wayyy too much, intead of just saying "here's what happens" - and then showing on ly the interesting stuff that's relevant for the story. It took me years and years to figure that out. Thomas Mann said that a writer is a person who finds writing harder than other people. I didn't get it when I first stumbled upon that quote. Now, two and half decades later, I see what he meant. 🙈🤪😅
Yes on so many if these!! These are just facts, especially the while writing advice that are absolutes, like everyone writes differently and thats fine!
