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We were doing “Word Wars” during the NaNo write-in the other day, which is where you challenge another writer or writers to write as quickly as possible for a determined period of time. Each time I did a word war I wrote my original word count on my cup, and then when I was done I did the math, subtracting from the old total to get the number of words added. As you can see, I did a number of word wars. This is how one gets two thousand words written in an hour – a series of ten-minute and five-minute sprints.