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This is your CHECK IN POST!


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 Tuesday, July 1st 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 Sunday, July 6th according to your local time. You will have SIX 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 Monday, July 7th).

8 ! ALL WORDS ARE AWESOME WORDS! Good luck everyone!

Date: 2014-06-30 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sdkshelly.livejournal.com
When writing gets to be a chore for me, I think it stems from feeling blocked/not knowing the perfect words to put down or maybe even not knowing what I want to write, etc. I've been using writeordie and ilys.com to break through those blocks, especially ilys.com. There is something freeing about not being able to see the text you're writing (the mistakes! the typos! the cliched words!) and then it just becomes about getting the words out there, getting the scene set, getting an idea on the table and I find that fun again.

And then I can go back and edit and make it pretty afterward. Or at least legible. LOL.

Er, sorry for the tl;dr! Anyway, you can do it! *waves pompoms*

Date: 2014-07-01 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dicta-contrion.livejournal.com
M jaw is dropped right now. That's an amazing idea. I just tried writing a couple in Ilys and it worked astonishingly well. Wow. Wow! Thank you!! I'm going to be trying that a lot, and not just in fic writing! ♥

Date: 2014-07-01 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sdkshelly.livejournal.com
Yay I'm so glad it was helpful! <3

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