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About Us
Endurance Writing was born in August 2007, of the needs of a small group of writers, a savvy band of women calling themselves the Typo-holics, each with an individual goal to finish a writing project of approximately 70,000 words in just two weeks. The Typo-holics embarked upon this two-week adventure with great expectations and motivation but found that, many times, it was much too easy to just walk away from the computer, especially when other occupations beckoned (TV, making lunches for kids, cleaning the fridge, etc). No, we did not lack discipline. We simply needed to make our writing LESS of a solitary activity.
Thus, WordSprints were born. The idea was to keep us writing. Simple. Easy. We met up online in a Yahoo conference room each day and just wrote. In sprints of 20 minutes each, with short breaks in between. And it worked!
We found, to our delight, that it was not as easy to walk away from our writing tasks when we knew our fellow writers were "live" and online, writing away furiously at their own manuscripts and chatting back and forth about their progress in between spurts.
On days when we couldn't make it to WordSprints, we were jealous of those who were writing without us. We felt sad when other things pulled us away from the WordSprints. We found that--lo and behold!--we wanted to be writing right then, too! It was group synergy at its best. And we wanted to keep it going.
The Half-Marathon event is one of the relatively newer additions to the Endurance Writing repertoire, but basically it just takes the WordSprints idea and multiplies it to the nth degree. In a way, WordSprints can be looked at as "interval training" getting you ready for the longer endurance event: the Writer's Half-Marathon.
So that is the story behind this strange new activity called Endurance Writing. You get the idea? It's tons of fun and (sort of like Altoids) CURIOUSLY productive. |
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