hd_writers Anniversary! Discussion Round-up!

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This week, on Tuesday, March 13, hd_writers will be celebrating its one-year anniversary! Thank you to everyone who has contributed or participated in any capacity this year! Without you, our little comm wouldn't be nearly as much fun or as helpful as it is! We have lots of great things coming up in the future, starting with another GSD week and several upcoming discussions and activities starting this week to celebrate our anniversary and continuing into the next few months!

To kick off our celebration, I would like to share with you some of the highlights of our first year!


In the last year we've had many interesting discussions! Here are a few new and old discussions that you may still want to read through or contribute to:
- Re-read or Re-write
- Beat the Negativity
- On Plagiarism, Credit Etc
- Phone Apps
- Writing Music and Soundtracks
- Stepping out of your Confort Zone
- The strangest place you've written an idea down
- Writing Cheerleaders


We have also had some fantastic essays contributed to the comm by mods and members alike:
- Dialougue by slytherincesss
- POV and Epithets by melusinahp
- Writer's Block by dacro
- Ratings by slytherincesss
- Characterization by melusinahp
- Adverbs by slytherincess
- POV and Narrative Voice by vaysh11


A couple of other articles of interest that you may want to note are:
- Building a Character Sheet or Outline
- 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing.
- The 10 Types of Writers’ Block (and How to Overcome Them)


We are here to help and support your writing in any way that we can! Let us inspire you! Get started with this fantastic video or let our members tell you what works for them.


Feel free to ask if you need help brainstorming or we're also happy to help with any questions you may have about writing sex.


Some of my personal favorite posts have been on organization. Or maybe you'd be interested in some of the canon questions that have been posted, including discussions on daydream charms, occlumency, summer homework, metamorphmagi, price of wands, and Hogwarts classes.


If you want something fun, check out the writing icons that our members have posted to share or take some time to explore the random prompt generators.


There have been so many fabulous resources and contributions shared here in the short time the community has been open! I'm sure I've missed something noteworthy! Please, explore our tags and our masterlist of helpful links at your leisure.


Thank you again! I hope you enjoy the community and please join in anytime! Keep an eye out for our upcoming events!

Sign-up! GSD Week: March 12-18

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Join us this week, Monday 12th March - Sunday 18th March as we celebrate the anniversary of hd_writers by WRITING ALL THE WORDS!


Get Shit Done with hd_writers

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To check-in, please reply to this post using the template below:
<b>1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)</b> <b>2. What are your goals for the day? (word counts, get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)</b> <b>3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?</b> <b>4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?</b> <b>5. Do you have anything else to share? (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc)</b>

We'll have a daily check-in post so you can track your progress. Please take a few moments to encourage your fellow writers! Cheering others on who have posted their updates, and they'll cheer you on. The best part about a GSD week is the supportive atmosphere! <3

100 / 10000 words. 1% done!
If you would like a fun little gadget to keep visible track of your word count, you can get a word meter here.


Also, remember our Chatzy rooms are available for support, comraderie, and mini word wars. The Chatzy rooms are available 24-7 for writing discussion and support: There's the regular HD Writers room and the SRS BZNS room for timed writing challenges and word wars. 18+

GOOD LUCK!

Word War Winners!!!

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Yes, it's me! My procrastination reached epidemic level, so it took me another week to post the final tallies. But better late than never, right? Right???

First of all, congratulations to everyone! Over the 72 hours, the word warriors of hd_writers wrote a massive

103,318 WORDS

That's just amazing, guys!!! Well done, everyone!!!

The winner for the weekend was winterstorrm, who wrote 14,382 words. Congratulations, winterstorrm!!!

Five intrepid warriors wrote more than 10,000 words over the weekend:
winterstorrm with 14,382
tryslora with 12,343
crazyparakiss with 11,245
thinkxpink with 10,295
wantsunicorns with 10,225

Eight people achieved their goal for the weekend!
winterstorrm, tryslora, thinkxpink, wantsunicorns, crazyparakiss, starlitshore, misbehavingmom, and kitty_fic

A special shout-out to wantsunicorns, whose goal was to finish the epic fic she's been working on - and she did!!!

Congratulations to everyone, whether you wrote words or not! The best part about being a writer, is that you can stare into space daydreaming for three days and it can still be an amazingly productive weekend.

And remember: writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)