INTERACTIVE: 30 DAY FAN FIC MEME || DAY SIX

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DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
DAY FOUR
DAY FIVE

06 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?


We welcome your participation! There is no minimum or maximum requirements for your answers -- they can be as long or as short as you'd like. I will include my answer as a comment.

NaNoWriMo 2011 || Con Crit

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Hello peeps!

We've been discussing NaNoWriMo 2011 and wanted to bring to topic to the community to see how we can best support the efforts of any hd_writers members during the month of November, as they work on NaNoWriMo.

In case not everyone is familiar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, wherein beginning November 1, 2011, you set out to write at least 50,000 words of a new novel during the month of November.

You'll note here that fan fiction is sanctioned for NaNoWriMo, so, yes, we can write a new fic for NaNoWriMo. The guidelines are very strict, however, that you must start fresh with a new fic or original novel. This means unfinished WIPs are not eligible for NaNoWriMo participation.

However, we want to be supportive of all you writers, and so we'd like to know:

- Would you like NaNoWriMo activities and encouragement from hd_writers?
- Would a daily check-in post during the month of November, where you can post your word count and/or progress bars, be helpful?
- Would you like a separate set of activities paralleling NaNoWriMo to work with unfinished WIPs?
- We were thinking that although this is a Harry/Draco community, pairings of all types would be allowable for purposes of writing a novel during NaNoWriMo -- how do you feel about this?
- Would extra posts on writing tips and SPaG FYIs be helpful during the month of November?
- What other ideas or needs do you have for NaNoWriMo?

Your feedback is encouraged and welcome!

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The Con Crit Exercise will be coming this week. The goal of the con crit exercise is to show how to give con crit and what the difference between con crit and deconstructive criticism is. Per dulcemia's suggestion, I will be con critting my own fic first, and you all will have the opportunity to add onto my criticisms, too. Five community members have submitted fics for this exercise; I will likely post one fic per month, with commentary on con crit and how to utilize it. So, yes, this is coming up soon!

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Everyone have a fabulous Tuesday!