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And there are features for every need: simple shortcuts, laps, export and customization are all available in InerziaTimer.Įven digital wristwatches have a countdown built-in, so why your Mac doesn't have one? InerziaTimer is the lightest and fastest countdown software available for your Mac: it starts up in about 3 seconds, uses only 22MB of RAM (iTunes, for example requires about two times the memory of InerziaTimer) and it's only 2MB on your disk! With a precision of 1/100 seconds, you'll be able to time about everything with a precision never seen before.

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InerziaTimer does exactly what real chronometers do: if you can measure it with a professional chronometer, you can do the same with your Mac. You won't lose a second again, with InerziaTimer!

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If you’re a nighttime writer you can also use THIS DOWNLOAD to warm your screen up and avoid blue light issues.InerziaTimer is a simple but powerful countdown/chronometer/alarm clock for the Mac, completely written in Cocoa. It has helped me avoid headaches during deadlines. It makes the black words stand out more without straining your eyes.

If you’re editing or prefer to type instead of dictating your stories, adjust the background page color of your document to a pale yellow.

Bonus: it has a sedentary timer built in you can set for whatever length of time you choose (I have mine set to go off every 40min) which means it vibrates if you’ve been sitting for that length of time and reminds you to get off your butt and move around. I also use THIS STEP TRACKER (it’s $15) to count my steps daily. This saves my hands and allows me to move more in my day. I have my computer on and the same doc open so as I walk by my desk I can see the words typing across the screen while I talk AND get some steps in. ** I recently downloaded the Google Docs app on my phone and now prefer to pace the length of my office while talking to my phone using the little microphone built into the app. Find your sweet spot, but try out dictation to get there. It makes me feel good and my brain doesn’t feel squishy and stressed. I could do more, but I know myself enough to know that 5k is my sweet spot.

Not only does this save your hands/fingers/wrists but it also saves you time. I don’t even bring my kindle…only paperbacks! Not only do I shut down my office at 5pm every evening, I also take 1-2 solid days off per week, AND we go on a week-long vacation every summer where I completely unplug from everything for the entire time.

Also, give yourself one (even better two!) days off of social media and email per week. I’m always saying that we as a society are too often addicted to being distracted from our daily lives. Others shut down their salons or bookstores (whatever it may be) at 5 or so in the evening and they survive. This business will run just fine without out trying to keep a firm grip on your social media or repeatedly checking your email. I know this job is on ALL THE TIME because it’s internet-based, but that doesn’t mean you have to be.

For me, I shut down my business at 5 in the evening.

Shut down your work each day as though it were an out of home office you were leaving from.** I started using an add-on for Google Docs (which is what I write in because it saves after EVERY SINGLE CHANGE and is accessible offline as well as instantly from any device where you can log into your Gmail account.) called Track My Words. If you want to see what I’m talking about pop over to my Instagram and look through my images until you find one. I create a spreadsheet with the day of the week and date, target goal, start time, end time, words for that session, and then a running tally of words for that day.

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It’s free and sounds like a wolf howling when your time is up. ** I now use an app on my mac called Howler Timer. After your timer goes off give yourself 5 minutes to stretch or unfocus your mind. This keeps me focused and it’s fun to see how many words you can get to in 25 minutes. I set a timer on my iPhone for 25 minutes and dictate my plotted story.

Use the Pomodoro technique when writing.

You can also book a tarot reading with my site Zen Author to get to know your characters better or for plot development and/or writer’s block.

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If you’re looking for a book to learn how to plot, this is my FAVORITE one: Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker This will not only save you time, but it will also create a more well-rounded story.