A sprint is a small, scheduled block of focused writing time, in the company of other folk also writing. Twenty-five minutes is the default — long enough to get into something, short enough that you don’t talk yourself out of starting.
How a sprint runs
- 01You join an upcoming sprint from the dashboard. Three slots a day, every day, plus member-hosted ones.
- 02At the top of the hour the timer starts. The Room opens in mute mode automatically. You write.
- 03A small counter at the bottom shows how many other folk are in the same sprint, no names. Just a quiet number.
- 04At twenty-five minutes the timer rings (audibly if you want, silently otherwise). You stop, or you keep going on your own.
- 05An optional five-minute thread opens after for anyone who wants to say what they wrote about. No pressure to post.
The point isn’t the sprint. It’s knowing other folk are also at their desks.
The schedule
Three sprints a day, run by us:
- 0107:00 UTC · Morning Pages. The European/UK morning shift.
- 0214:00 UTC · Lunch Break. The midday Atlantic-friendly slot.
- 0322:00 UTC · After Hours. The Pacific-evening / Asia-morning slot.
Members can also host their own sprints — pick a time, optionally gate it to a critique circle or a genre forum, and folk can join.
Who it’s for
Anyone signed in. Free folk get the three daily sprints; members get host-your-own. The sprints are deliberately community-wide so a free-tier writer in São Paulo and a member in Helsinki can sit in the same room.