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Get your pencils ready, find your favorite notebooks and pens, and wiggle those typing fingers to get them limbered up. The war is upon us!
1 ! The war begins as of Midnight, the START of Saturday, June 8th according to your local time. If I've calculated correctly, this post should be up in plenty of time that even the time travelers on the other side of the world will be able to start at the beginning of their own day!
2 ! The war ends as of Midnight, the END of Monday, June 10th according to your local time. You will have THREE AWESOME DAYS of writing.
3 ! To participate, please check-in with a comment below. You may also post your beginning word counts in order to help you keep track of your progress. All members of
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hd_writers are welcome to participate! Invite your friends to join in!4 ! Use this time to work on your writing - any project, any pairing, any fandom! You do not have to be writing Harry/Draco fic in order to participate. Any and all creative writing counts!
5 ! The hd_writers chatroom is there as always to serve as inspiration and encouragement, as well as the SrsBzns chatroom. Please try to stay on the topic of writing as much as possible during the word war! The SrsBzns room should be focused strictly on timed word wars without the additional chat. For inspiration, writing talk, encouragement, etc. please visit the main room.
6 ! You don't have to participate the entire weekend, just jump in whenever you can and do any amount of writing in order to qualify.
7 ! Remember to check back in with your final, ending word count within approximately 24 hours after the war ends! (We would appreciate if you could check back in with your final word count by the end of your day on Tuesday, June 11th).
8 ! ALL WORDS ARE AWESOME WORDS! Good luck everyone!
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:10 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: FINISH HEAT WAVE - then a gift one-shot and a challenge (due the 14th)
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Got to get from point c to d and a ending
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?
EEEEEKKKKKKK!
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 04:18 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Heat Wave, WiP
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? I would love to be able to get it finished and off to my betas by Monday night. Would love this. Doubt it will happen.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?
I have seven more scenes on this fic, which translates to 10-12k, plus 2k to write for the WiP. So um, yes, I'm only pledging 8k because that's all I ever write no matter the length of the war, and it's a crazy weekend, so if you see me... remind me to make words?
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:20 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Random ficlet & my wip
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? finally update my wip
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I'm just really thrilled I have no fest stuff due!! :P
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 04:40 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On:
Other Goals Do a thorough outline of my Level Two episode! Also, I'm getting ready to move, so another goal is to pack up the entire second bedroom (which we use for storage).
Anything To Share I'm in desperate need of productivity...
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Date: 2013-06-07 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 05:15 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: a drabble or ficlet, original story
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? this time I'd like to actually get some writing done! Lol!
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?
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Date: 2013-06-07 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 06:16 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: a fest fic, creative writing assignment,
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? FINISH fest fic (about six scenes left, and another four to rework), finish poem draft, draft short story from existing outline, and flesh out/refine Tropes outline so I can start it in earnest next week
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Committing to NOT READING this weekend, just writing!
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Date: 2013-06-07 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 11:36 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: beat the heat
Other Goals To check in on the daily posts with my progress and the last post.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I need some butt-kicking, pep-talking ww buddies willing to poke and prod me until I write.
Starting word count: 14,306
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Date: 2013-06-08 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 01:02 am (UTC)But I shall join in.
Total Word War Goal: Um if including real life essays, perhaps 8,000 words.
Projects To Be Worked On: literature essay, lab report, and a HD story.
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Figure out what how to move their relationship forward and past friendship.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Probably shouldn't participate in word wars if I've essays due lol.
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Date: 2013-06-08 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 04:51 am (UTC)As usual, 5K (1K per day) seems to work well for me. Maybe one day I will be ambitious...I just realized this is a 3-day challenge rather than 5. Hm. I will still set my overall goal for 5K with a daily minimum of 1K. A little bit ambitious.Projects To Be Worked On: Sherlock fic
Other Goals Complete the current chapter
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Starting word count: 60,373. Estimated end word count 80K. Which means I need 3 more of these Word Wars after this to finish. ;)
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Date: 2013-06-08 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 06:48 am (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: finish my frustratingly stalled hp_porninthesun fic
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? must find my smut muse... I've been writing nothing but feels!
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I'm so grateful for these word wars. They are amazingly motivational.
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Date: 2013-06-08 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 09:51 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Kakashi+Iruka Team Bingo (Naruto fandom, 2k goal); smut-fic exchange (original fandom, 1k goal); serpentinelion glompfest (HD, 1k goal)
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Just to jump-start the writing.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I think I'll ask in the chats.
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Date: 2013-06-09 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-09 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-09 08:15 pm (UTC)