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Google Timer Tech Tip

I dont have very many time management tricks that I could give but setting a timer for me never works. I found that many times I have found that I measure the time by just getting things done and then taking a cigarette break. Sadly I have learned how long fifteen minutes is by knowing how long it takes to smoke two cigarettes. I will say however when I am not smoking I tend to rely on my body to tell me when I need to take a break. The body has a way of letting us know if we need to take a break.

Tech Tip: Chrome Word Counter

I have always enjoyed word counts because it also helps me as an author know how much I have written. I cannot say, however, that the Chrome word counter helps me out a lot because i normally use microsoft word or pages since I do most of my writing on a macbook pro. I do feel like word counts are useful when writing short stories or novels because so many publishers are limited on their word count. I feel as though these publishers would not, of course, want a manuscript that is 30,000 pages long and it would be a pain to go through and read these manuscripts and edit all of them. As a writer I feel like a wordcount is useful for these purposes and also so that when I am writing I have a measurement of how many words I am writing as well as where I am at within my work.