So I need to keep writing and if I stop for too long I get stopped and lose everything. I wonder what that black bar going across the top of the screen is for.

So I need to keep writing and if I stop for too long I get stopped and lose everything. I wonder what that black bar going across the top of the screen is for. Is that an overall time limit? I guess I will tell a story. How about the time I was in grade 6, competing in the inter-school track tournament. My sport was the standing broad jump. I was amazing! I could jump, from standing, 2 meters 30 cm. Nobody could come close to me. I was a shoe-in for the gold medal. At the track meet, on a fine day in early June, I was really confident. Until I saw this one competitor. Supposedly he was 12 years old, but he was almost 6 feet tall. 12 years old my ass! Anyway, he beat me. I jumped 2 m 31 cm (personal best), and he jumped 2 m 32 cm. Nobody else in the competition was even close. 3rd place was something like 2m 10 cm. I've never been so disappointed with 2nd place. Just goes to show, not matter how confident and able you are, you can still fail. Yes, the world kept turning, and the sun still came up in the morning. I was just a bit more disappointed than the day before. OK I am at 222 words. And I have run out of things to say. And the black bar is almost across the top of the