Reminder, that the next #TWSOchat is this Sunday, January 11th at 10:30am (PST) and the subject is: Techniques to Help You Focus on Your Writing. Join in on the chat with #TWS writers, alumni & mentors to refine your writing practice. Ask questions & share your experience #WritingCommunity #Writers

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720. Thank you!

Thanks for a wonderful year end sprint session! I did 960 words and I am thinking I can keep writing a bit more. See you in 2026! ##TWSsprints #amwriting

My last sprint was 409 words, was speeding along with story so was easier. ^ct Have a great day everyone and drop a note if you have time to let us know how your 2025 writing year went. I had a few essays published in anthologies, did some interviews + made progress with my book. How about you all?

Writers! Give @TWSSFU a follow & enter into your 2025 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

Thanks all for joining us today for #TWSsprints! Keep writing now that you are all warmed up & use this exercise on your own too! Enjoy the rest of your day and we'll see you for the next sprints on the fourth Sunday of the month #amwriting #writers #writing

What's your final word count for the whole exercise or your last sprint? Let us know and keep track of it for next month's #TWSsprints #amwriting #writingsprints

STOP! #TWSsprints Great work #writers, if you've gone this far you've done your warm up for the day. Keep going if you can, because sometimes good writing can appear after a sprint warm up! #amwriting

@twssfu.bsky.social 310 words and feeling emotionally spent. Writing about Feminism and the 4B Movement is... A lot for a Sunday morning. 🤪😂

Time to start the final sprint, keep going! #TWSsprints, write for another 15mins. #amwriting Free yourself from the writing process, just write whatever comes out down. You will go back later and revise, just keep writing! #words #writers #writing #writingsprints

STOP, and take a break for 5mins! #TWSsprints Breathe out, grab some snacks or more tea/coffee for the next sprint. #amwriting #writerslife

"There's a feeling, a sense of things, that I've had for a number of years now. A quiet knowing..." 201 words

And START Writing again, part two of three sections for the sprint. #TWSsprints #writing #amwriting #writingexercises #writers #writingsprints

254 words for me today for the first sprint, I feel as if I'm slowly plodding along but will keep going. ^ct #TWSsprints

Ditto! That sounds great, can't wait 😀 307 words for first sprint. As usual, I will take what I can get lol. #TWSsprints #amwriting

Tweet us your words and/or your word count if you'd like! #TWSsprints Please feel free to share as we'd love to see some TWS sprints. #amwriting #WritingCommunity

STOP, and take a break for 5mins! #TWSsprints Breathe out, grab some snacks or more iced tea/coffee for the next sprint. #amwriting #writerslife

Good morning! #amwriting #TWSsprints

I'm working on an essay that I started last week and hope to submit it soon to for an anthology. Would be nice to finish off the year with another small piece that gets published. Been working a long time on my larger novel and will be querying with that this year too ^ct #TWSsprints

Looking for writing prompts and essays for our #TWSsprints or other writing? Check out "Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing" by editors @so_chez & @laura_farina of @TWSSFU (Writer's Studio Program at SFU). 43 essays via @AnvilPress - bit.ly/3u3nGsg

You can use #TWSsprints to freewrite and try out new ideas or styles of writing. Use as much of what you create in these sessions as you'd like. Sometimes it might just be a word, phrase or idea in these generative sessions that you can use in your writing.

It's 10:30am START Writing. #TWSsprints #writing #amwriting #writingexercises #writers #writingsprints

Get ready by opening up a fresh page. Or if you prefer, get your pencil and paper ready! Time editing and proofing can also be part of your time spent in sprints. You can paste this later into your manuscript. #TWSsprints

Looking for a morning #writingsprints group today? The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University are starting our sprint sessions in a few minutes at 10:30am PST. They are open to all writers worldwide and we'd love for you to join us! #writing #writers #writerslift #TWSsprints

We are starting the #TWSsprints in 2 mins at 10:30am (PST). Start typing, handwriting, dictating for 15 mins straight. At 10:45am we break for 5 mins. Then repeat the same pattern two more times. Get your writing off to a good start for the day!

Writers write along with us in short sprints of writing. Use #TWSsprints in 15 min intervals with 5 min breaks for 1 hour. Tweet your word count, if you'd like to!

You can join in at any time we do 3 x 15 min sprints, so feel free to jump in on any one of them! #TWSsprints #amwriting #writers #WritingCommunity

#TWSsprints start at 10:30am (PST) this morning. Open to all #writers on Bluesky! Write along with us in three writing sprints of 15 mins each. #amwriting

#Poets we hope you'll join us too. Let us know if you have any variations to your version of #TWSsprints! #amwriting 3 mins and counting…

Open up a new word/google doc/paper page or whatever writing platform you are using, so you can have an accurate word count to get started. You can always copy this into your manuscript later! #TWSsprints #amwriting

Would anyone like to share what they might be writing about today for #TWSsprints or will it be a stream of consciousness? #amwriting #sprints

Here's the timing for the #TWSsprints sessions: 1st sprint - 10:30am-10:45am 5min break 2nd sprint - 10:50am-11:05am 5min break 3rd sprint - 11:10am - 11:25am All #writers are welcome to join @TWSSFU students+alumni on scheduled Sunday mornings! #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Are you ready to flex your writing muscles this morning? With #TWSsprints we write independently for 15 mins, break for 5 mins and repeat 3 times #amwriting Open to all #writers!

If you've never sprinted with us before, please make sure to use #TWSsprints in your tweets, so we can see them #amwriting Everyone is welcome!

Any questions today about #TWSsprints? Are there any tips about previous writing sprees or events you've been a part of that you've found helpful? Please share with us #amwriting

Join us today at 10:30am (PST) for #TWSsprints. Write for 15mins, break for 5mins x 3 times all online here at Bluesky. Share your word count! Open to writers everywhere. #TWSsprints #writerslift #writinglife #amwriting #writers

#TWSsprints are a great exercise to write without editing and can be used for idea generation, unfiltered thoughts, unique phrases etc. to use in your #writing practice. Our supportive Bluesky group #motivates each other to keep writing on Sunday mornings. #amwriting #writers #WritingCommunity

What is a writing sprint? It's a focused block of time where you free write and just work at putting down a maximum # of words or whatever you feel comfortable writing without going back to edit at this stage. #TWSsprints

Getting ready to start our @twssfu.bsky.social TWSSFU sprints session this morning Sun. Dec 28th at 10:30am PST on Bluesky #TWSsprints. Open to all #writers everywhere, write for 15mins, break 5mins x 3 sprints. Do some morning pages before you start your day! #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #writers

If you're interested in studying poetry in the new year, think about taking "Poetry 1" with @raoulfernandes.bsky.social. January-March via @cs-sfu.bsky.social. It's an online, asynchronous course you can complete from anywhere, while also having a cohort for workshops and discussions:

Join us for the last #TWSsprints session for the year online with Bluesky tomorrow, Sunday, Dec 28th at 10:30am (PST). All writers are welcome to join in for 3 x 15 mins sprints with 5 mins breaks in between. Plus share with us how your writing went for the year!

Save the date for the next #TWSOchat on Sunday, January 11th at 10:30am (PST). We will discuss: Techniques To Help You Focus On Your Writing. Join in with TWS alumni + mentors to ask q's and share your knowledge. #writerschat #WritingCommnunity

Writers! Give us a follow too/mark in your calendars, so that you will know about the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Bluesky Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Bluesky Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

Big love to the writers participating in today's #TWSOchat on Protecting Your Ideas: @unclejayhubbard.bsky.social @toveblack.bsky.social @perkustooth.bsky.social @emath.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @danny-aldham.bsky.social @candietanaka.bsky.social

Ha ha! Good plan. As I pull out my long suffering project to spend the rest of the morning, I was just thinking how fun it would be to do a first draft of something again. I will start something smaller, something reasonably completable. #TWSOchat

Today's session seemed to zip by thanks to all of your energetic thoughts and replies. We appreciate it and if you see our discussion after the chat session ends and want to add to it, please do. Use the hashtag #TWSOchat and we will share your words out asap. Happy Holidays and keep on writing! ^ct

Thanks writing friends for joining in on another interesting discussion. As always, thank you for sharing! At TWS we love to hear how your writing is going and what you are finding interesting in the literary world. #TWSOchat #writers #writingcommunity

unless yr doing some high-concept stuff (ie: inventing Star Trek or something like that), it all falls into execution; yes, folk said that one Stephen King novel, The Dome, had a similar idea than The Simpson's Movie, but i wouldn't call them the same,

i find talking out my ideas always expands/clarifies my thinking; sometimes i need to explain it to another to get a better sense of what it is, so im almost always open to talking abt projects in-process,