A WORD WAR IS COMING!!

[tryslora]

How about a word war? Don't worry, it won't impact Halloween; I've planned around that!

The war will run from SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1st through TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4th, based on your own time zone. Basically, I'll post the check-in before it's Saturday in the Australian bits of the world, and you check in and start writing when your Saturday begins. When your Tuesday is over, put your pencil down and you will be done!

That's FOUR FULL DAYS of fantastic words! The word fairies will be popping around to sprinkle you with dust and give your muses plenty of rest, food and drink so that they'll be inspiring you. Come join us all and write!

Spread the news; all fandoms and pairings are welcome. Whatever you need to write, we celebrate your words!

Comments

[smirkingcat.livejournal.com]

uhh yeah another one *happy dance*
that's awesome !

[tryslora]

Yay, glad to help out!

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be working on some original, non-fest stories. Right now, I only have two left to finish, plus one I'll start around that time.

I can't wait.

[tryslora]

Everything is welcome, and I hope we can help! It's timed perfectly for the start of NaNo, if you happen to be participating.

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

What's NaNo?

[tryslora]

NaNo is NaNoWriMo, an annual challenge to write a novel (50k) in one month. While the spirit of the challenge is to write a 50k single work of original fiction in one month, many folks use it to push themselves to write 50k in one month of anything. I will be doing it mixing the finishing touches on holiday exchange fics, plus getting started on a new novel (I hope).

For me, it's sort of out of nostalgia. It's like an annual word count jump start. And the charts that it produces for daily word counts are what drove me to create my own word count spreadsheet that I use every day now to track my writing and see my progress. I realized that having that accountability for NaNo helped me, so I extrapolated it for use during the rest of the year.

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

OK, thanks. I don't know if I'll participate in that or not, but it sounds interesting.