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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 Monday, March 31st 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 Friday, April 4th according to your local time. You will have FIVE 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 time, 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 Saturday, April 5th).
8 ! ALL WORDS ARE AWESOME WORDS! Good luck everyone!
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Date: 2014-03-30 08:06 pm (UTC)Total Word War Goal: Whatever comes
Projects To Be Worked On: Horror Fest, maybe others
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Find out how Hagrid&Snape kiss for the first time. Also find otu what the heck I want to write for Horror Fest!!!
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Why is my darkfic muse gone!??? D:
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Date: 2014-03-30 08:34 pm (UTC)Blinky cursor of doom!
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 08:33 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: smoochfest, hdmpreg, bandombigbang
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 I want to do for bandombigbang, finish mpreg or smoochfest and write atleaste one smut scene. :D
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I need to stop signing up for fests!
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 08:42 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: HarryBang, DramioneLove, Couple Big Bang, and any other projects
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Hopefully, finish Dramione Love and the other one-shot stories and get to 15,000 words on HarryBang.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 09:50 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Oh boy: a b-day gift for a friend,
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Finish the birthday fic, start Tropes, clean up and continue Bang, pick a kinkfest prompt and daydream about it. ;-)
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Perfect timing on this war, thank you!!! Good luck to all!
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 09:59 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: smoochfest, dino-porn, and the next part of DTT
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? At this point I just want to get words down. I've been really struggling to write lately, and I just need to get through it.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Anyone who wants to poke at me, please feel free. I'm finding it so hard to stay focused.
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Date: 2014-03-30 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 11:40 pm (UTC)I'm hoping to get dino-porn done, at least. I think it'll be short. Like, 3-4k? Maybe less? ::crosses fingers::
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Date: 2014-03-30 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 10:18 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Need to finish my camelot land big fic. Would quite like to get some more Harry Bang done.
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Stuff
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? LET'S DO THIS B****H!!!! WHO'S WITH ME!!
Good luck everyone!
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 11:03 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: OH SO MANY
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? ALL THE WORDS
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Just need to write write write.
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Date: 2014-03-30 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 11:13 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Hobbit Big Bang, Horror Fest, an HD_Writers prompt, Rare Women
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Need to finish my rough draft for the big bang (so 2500 words?), start (and hopefully finish) my Horror Fest submission, and start on my Rare Women submission. The deadline for the HD_Writers prompt is, like today (along with my GetLucky fic, which needs editing) but that should thankfully be short?
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? After last time's disaster (there's less drama now, but I'm ill, so...) I need some serious buttkicking.
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 11:16 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On:hp_darkfest
Other Goals fill in the missing pieces. ?
Anything To Share prayers and butt-kicking to keep me actually at the task, instead of the usually disappearing act I tend towards at times like these.?
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-30 11:59 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: NSTS, fullmoon, NovelWiP, blog posts (THEY COUNT)
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Blog three times on the pro blog, finish two chapters of NSTS, submit one fullmoon piece
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?
GO WORDS!!!!
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Date: 2014-03-31 12:42 am (UTC)Total Word War Goal: 2.5k
Projects To Be Worked On: MerlinRBB
Other Goals? Turn Merlin and Arthur from not wanting to be near each other to happy study buddies who hang out together
Anything To Share? I'm not particularly fussed about the number of words, but I really need to keep them flowing to move the storyline along and finish this monster and soon!!!
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Date: 2014-03-31 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 01:04 am (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: hd_smoochfest, hds_beltane, hd_tropes, harrybang, Rainy Day, hogwarts365, dracoharry100, poetic_hp, hpsapphicappeal's every flavour bean challenge.
Other Goals? Okay, a lot of those are just planning, but I hope to get a few words down for each. I need to figure out how I'm going to write Rainy Day, because I've already failed many times and my husband says I can't sign up for any more fest until I write his story! (I did say I would write it for him before our son was born, who is now three.)
Anything To Share? I'm really excited about my hd_smoochfest and hd_tropes fics! I just hope that I can force myself to take the time I need on them to make them as good as I'm imagining them right now, instead of what I normally do; have to write a completely different easier story than I originally planned, because I don't have the time to write the story I really wanted to write.
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Date: 2014-03-31 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 05:48 am (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: smoochfest
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Make a plan. Total plan. POV decisions and bullet points and possibly a spreadsheet. Start writing to establish tone even if none of it ends up in the final version.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Being torn between writing fic and reading all the awesome stuff out from remix + hurtfest + dracotops is a dilemma that needs to be solved through serious butt-kicking and self-discipline. But as dilemmas go, it's really fricking delightful.
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Date: 2014-03-31 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 05:34 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Smoochfest Media Remix
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Make it through the smut and then some action and a nice ending... I hope.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I got stuck with this fic and lost my inspiration. I'm hoping to get it back with this Word War.
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Date: 2014-03-31 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-31 07:11 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: sshg promptfest, dmhg challenge
Other Goals? write a quick one-shot on sshg then ask for second prompt
Anything To Share? I need an instruction manual: how to write when your dead tired
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Date: 2014-03-31 08:35 pm (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: Wizarding games assignments till the very last minute, hd-smoochfest, harrybang,
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? research for my smoochfest (mainly rewatching the movie)
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I'm so behind!
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Date: 2014-04-01 02:46 am (UTC)Projects To Be Worked On: anything that strikes my muse
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? write words
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?