READY! GET SET! GO!!!!

[tryslora]

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 Friday, December 26th 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, January 4th according to your local time. You will have TEN 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 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 marathon, 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, January 5th).

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

<b>Total Word War Goal:</b> <b>Projects To Be Worked On:</b> <b>Other Goals <i>(get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)</i>?</b> <b>Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?</b>

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[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal:5,000
Projects To Be Worked On:Twinsmas, HP Rare Cliche, HP 3Some, HD Family Fest, HD Hurtfest, and HP Deflower
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Finish Twinsmas (since it's due in one week and doesn't have a minimum), really work on HP Rare Cliche.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?No

[lordhellebore]

Total Word War Goal: 5k (let's be realistic, I'm meeting people and I'm catching up on reading and just being lazy)
Projects To Be Worked On: Tolkien fic
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? ---
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? ---

[tryslora]

Total Word War Goal: 10k to 20k
Projects To Be Worked On: CS, TT, HE, whatever else comes to mind
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Get writing again. Make lots of words while on vacation.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?

Happy holidays and I hope everyone has a wonderful end to 2014 and a start to 2015!

[tryslora]

You've got this!

[tryslora]

Yay for meeting people! Sounds like you've got a good holiday week ahead. Good luck with words, too!

[smirkingcat.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal:8k - but typed on pc i dream about around 13k (because i need to type also what i have written so far)
Projects To Be Worked On:hd_hurtfest, some fic i promised someone very nice
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 chapter 3 and the end, and make everything come together and still making sense *dreaming big here*
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?butt-kicking is always welcome... since sometime my inner lazyness gets the better of me and its so hard to conquer ones weaker self- especially when it does not want to be conquered at all

[lordhellebore]

Meeting people = stress ;) Just staying home wouldn't be half bad.

[tryslora]

Awww. But I do totally get that. I'm very excited that other than knitting, and some appointments, most of my next week will be spent at home.

[tryslora]

You can do this! And I will happily kick butts when I'm home and writing and in the srs room. :)

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

You can do this!

[nicevenn.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 6,000
Projects To Be Worked On: Holiday challenge series, write advent gift fic?, My Slashy Valentine or HD Remix
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Catch up on & finish holiday series. Come up with something ideas for and start writing fest fic(s).
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? OMG 10 DAYS!

[nicevenn.livejournal.com]

You can totally do this. :)

[nicevenn.livejournal.com]

*cheers*

[lordhellebore]

That'a a lot! Good luck :)

[inspired-being.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 2500 words + 1 beta’d chapter
Projects To Be Worked On: Camelot_drabble gift exchange, Merlin holidays, beta for friends original stuff
Other Goals? Finish my cd holiday exchange fic, get it beta’d and post on time. Attempt to finish the other holiday fic I started last year.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? I just want to finish what I start this time round! Setting the goal small, but I fully intend to smash it considering the amount I’ve written in the past few days. Yay for being on holidays and having TIME!

[tryslora]

Thanks!

[tryslora]

Thanks!

[tryslora]

I'm hoping to average a little more than 1k per day. If I'm lucky! I don't have a lot to do over the next ten days other than some social things and some cleaning. I just wanna lock myself in my house and WRITE.

[tryslora]

Ten days! You don't have to write every single day. Just enjoy it, pace yourself, and you can do all the things!

[tryslora]

You can always modify your goal as you go on. *grins* Or just smash through it and watch it happily dwindle in the rearview... You can do it!!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 5k
Projects To Be Worked On: editing a thing, beta-ing two things, rl work thing
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Getting the words on the page.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)? Go words!

[emansil-12.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal:3000
Projects To Be Worked On:I've a lot of unfinished fics from fests that I had to drop out of. I want to finish them and clear the slates for next year.
Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever)? Just want to get s**t finished.
Anything To Share (flailing, requests for butt-kicking, pep-talks, etc.)?

[tryslora]

You can do this!!

[tryslora]

Sounds like an excellent way to finish out the year. Go you!

[lordhellebore]

I'm checking out again. RL is happening, and I'm not getting any writing done.

[tryslora]

I totally understand. *HUGS* I hope RL doesn't get too hard and that you're able to get some time to yourself to breathe.

[emansil-12.livejournal.com]

Things haven't been too successful so far, but the day is still fairly young. (I'm not why I can never actually stay focused during these word wars.)