Very cool. I do this at home more than at work. I really need to apply it more at work. Thanks for the ideas.

Audrey, every writer is different. If you use it more at home and that works for you, great. I don't use pomodoro all the time, I'm pretty self-motivated and disciplined. However if I'm really wanting to sequester my time, block it off and no interruptions, that's when I use pomodoro. I've trained myself -- like Pavlov's dogs! -- that when that timer clicks on, I work. And I don't stop working until it dings off.

I remember one summer where I was on a schedule (punishment for bad grades) and I got so much done. Of course, most of the stuff I did I didn't want to do! So I should be all over this, but I'm so bad at having a consistent day-to-day routine. This month, for example, has been hell on my sleep, wake-up time has shifted from noon to 5pm to 4am to midnight and everything in between. Combine that with energy levels, forget it. If I could find an app that was as malleable as I am, then we'd be talking. I could say "I need low-energy tasks right now" and it could give me all these tasks I deem "low energy" and I could knock them out, maybe build up to high energy tasks, or if I'm on a roll with something, I could tell it that so I get similar tasks one after another. This kind of help shouldn't be just for the disciplined.

I've heard of this many times, of course, but yesterday went an put an app on my phone. I'm usually pretty good about "seat of pants to seat of chair", but I can be one of those writers who stares at walls and out windows, does the walk-and-talk thing to work thru scenes, etc. So .... yesterday, with a new idea just beginning to break over the past few days(and disrupting my work on a whole different script), I decided to use some pomodoros for mini-brainstorming sessions. Basically put fingers to keyboard and started typing willy-nilly and didn't stop til the DING! It was wild. Frenzied, frenetic, felt a bit like working in a blue book during a test period and trying to commit every last thing to paper and, at the same time, very freeing and fun. It's amazing what the brain will puke out given the chance. I doubt the technique was "meant" to be utilized in such a frenzied way, but it served a purpose for me. May continue to use it, who knows......