The trick of the challenge is simply to keep on writing, staying in that flow state for as much of the day as possible, and minimising the amount of time spent checking, revising, or rewording content. It's going to take some courage to continue writing without correcting even the most trivial flaws, but don't worry - this will all be revised tomorrow before I publish anything. Another thing to emphasise is that this challenge is not simply to create loads of material. If that was the point of my blog, I could simply outsource such tasks to guest writers, while I focus on its programming development (hey, that's actually quite a good idea - I'll write it down ). No, the point of the challenge is to increase my general writing output by completely shattering any expectations I've put on how productive I can be in a day. To be honest, I'm quite a workhorse at times, but the most I've ever written in one day is probably quite a bit less than 10,000 words, and I'm usually over-eager to reread over every paragraph after I'm done. All that time spent editing and revising is now going to be spent solely on creation of content, and then tomorrow when my intellectual energy is completely spent, I'll be able to review everything. I believe that this is a far more efficient way of writing.

If this challenge goes well, I'll be partaking in it again in the future, and of course increasing the amount of words to something even higher than 10,000 (which I believe is easily possible when writing in the stream-of-consicousness style suitable for a blog.)

For the rest of the day, I'm resigned pretty much to my computer. I'm going to impose some very strict rules on myself (I'm not one for self-discipline, though you'd never have guessed it, would you? ), such as only checking email once every two hours, which is a very disturbing contemplation for me, considering I do all my work on the internet, and receive hundreds of emails per day. The only reasons for getting off the computer are as follows: to sleep, to read (for research purposes only), to eat and drink, and occasionally to exercise so I don't go completely insane (the prospect of sitting behind a computer all day writing brought vaguely to mind the image of astronauts who lose all bone-mass due to not having experienced the pressure of gravity for a few weeks.

I'll be posting live updates on my progress every few hours (during my eating breaks) on my twitter (which you can find in the "about me" box in the top-right-hand side of this page). I'll also be writing a concluding post at the end of the day, describing how the challenge went, how productive it was, whether I'll be indulging in the experiment again in the future, and if I would advise it to other writers and bloggers.

For now, peace out.

PyThoughts.