Word War - CHECK-IN

[kitty_fic]

This is your check-in post for the 48 hour Word War. It will run until Monday at 12:00am GMT. That is 48 hours of writing!


What is a WORD WAR?

Essentially, a word war is timed writing. Participants get together and set a time limit – say, 10 minutes or half an hour – and then write as much as they can in that time period. Authors are allowed to work on any project, and as many different ones as they like. You can edit or write – so long as there is some creative work being done. At the end of the time slot, authors post how many words they have written, be it 10 or 800. Every word brings you that much closer to your goal! ♥

1- To check-in, please post your beginning word count in the comments below. All members of hd_writers are welcome to participate!

2- Use this time to work on your hd_bigbang, harrydracompreg, hds_beltane, hd_smoochfest or any other projects you may have going!

3- The chat is there as always to serve as inspiration and encouragement! Please try to stay on the topic of writing as much as possible this weekend! Our main room will continue as it always is: chat, inspiration, word wars, encouragement, etc.

4- The mods have decided to create a second chatroom- hd_writers srsbzns. This room will be focused strictly on word wars without the additional chat. The SrsBzns room will be for FOCUSED word warring!

5- 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.

6- Remember to return here to post your ending count sometime soon after the war ends! Just reply to your starting comment with your final count. This is also how you will claim your participant banner :)

7- If you complete a story over the weekend please let me know and I will make a list of our accomplishments! (provide link if possible.)

8- Prizes are as follows:

-The winner with the most words will recieve a v-gift + 300 LJ tokens!

-Anyone who writes 10k in two days will recieve a v-gift.

-We have also had additional prizes donated this round by the very talented failed_mission! <3
* participant banners for all the word war participants
* a special banner for those who hit 10k
* a winner banner for the ultimate winner


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Comments

[forsanethaec.livejournal.com]

i'm in! i have precisely 3,377 words right now of my selected (h/d!) project and about 600 more words of detailed planning. i've been working on this fic for more than a year and i love it to death but it just won't write itself. SO NOW I AM GOING TO WRITE IT. GO TEAM.

[forsanethaec.livejournal.com]

checking out: i wrote 1,290 of my h/d, 1,625 for dark_fest and 2,479 for tsn_kinkmeme which thepretender501 told me counts!?? so my final total is 4,669 on my main project, plus 4,104 of other new stuff, meaning i wrote 5,394 words this weekend. womp womp

[celestlyn.livejournal.com]

Checking in! Starting word count is 988. Shooting to finish at around 1700.

[celestlyn.livejournal.com]

Ending count is 1409 for a total written of 421. I didn't finish and not where I wanted to be, but made good progress.

[deirdre-aithne.livejournal.com]

Project #1: 124 words
Lucius Big Bang: 249 words

*crosses fingers* Here's hoping I can get some of these damn things written!!!

[deirdre-aithne.livejournal.com]

6362 words. @_@ Much more than I expected to wind up with, lol. That's between Project #1, my LBB, a co-write (my contributions only), and a WIP. So yay for progress!!!

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

OK... Current totals of stuff that needs a kick this weekend:

hd_smoochfest = 1,155
harrydracompreg = 552
hp_porninthesun = 0
Merlin paperlegends = 5,718 (I scrapped it and started again yesterday, for my sins)
kinkme_merlin anon fills x 2 = 19,028
hd_bigbang = I don't even want to think about it!

Am praying for rain tomorrow else am getting dragged out.

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

I'm throwing in the towel now and treating myself to some QAF.

New totals.

hd_smoochfest = 1,858
harrydracompreg = 916
hp_porninthesun = 0
Merlin paperlegends = 9874
kinkme_merlin anon fills x 2 = 16,006
hd_bigbang = nowt

Total words this weekend = 6,829!

Am quite chuffed with that considering the distractions.

[kitty_fic]

My top priority is to finish my dracotops_harry fic!!! OMG!
Word count is currently - 2478

[kitty_fic]

total words written - 1444

Somehow I saw this weekend going differently in my mind! But words are words! And it's better than I did the last time we had a ww!

<3

[vanessawolfie.livejournal.com]

Checking in,

hd_smoochfest = 1,946

A small little prompted thing = 0

[vanessawolfie.livejournal.com]

So I'm replying with my final count:

My word count for : The Porny Epic (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ur92BYwm3DMoAYrxA-1jEBMjgBvztCgbt84f0Xrlz2w/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKuLmPYL) that me and Bleedy and Wendy wrote together = 393 words

A small prompted thing/BriniMC's bday gift (http://vanessawolfie.livejournal.com/21099.html) = 875 words

Ending word count for hd_smoochfest = 3863 words
which means I wrote : 1917 words in it this weekend!

Then I wrote a short poem for SPN fandom. = 112 words

TOTAL WORD COUNT FOR THE WW ! = 3297

[thepretender501.livejournal.com]

I'm in!!
hd_smoochfest= 0
Gift fic #1= 136
Gift fic #2= 0
Essays= 0

Does anyone want to ww with me here: http://www.chatzy.com/252190812952? I'm going hardcore this time \o/

Will be on for the next hour or two and later tonight.

[thepretender501.livejournal.com]

Final wc= 1520 /o\

[valinorean.livejournal.com]

checking in with 0 for my smoochfest

[valinorean.livejournal.com]

final word count is 2662

[maja-li.livejournal.com]

Cheers! :D Starting wordcount is 349; shooting to finish up at around 2.5k.

So pumped! \o/

[maja-li.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, fell a little short; final count is 2374, for a total of 2,025.

treacle_tartlet reporting for duty!

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

Project #1 (not-very-secret-sequel to an older fic) - erm...so, I think there are about 1000 words, but it's all handwritten so I don't actually know for sure. I'll edit this comment or reply or something once I've typed it up. *is so organised*

Project #2 (slightly-more-secret fic that is totaly not for a fest because I AM NOT WRITING FOR FESTS THIS YEAR) - NO WORDS AT ALL, NOT ONE.

I feel this can only end well! *\o/*

Re: treacle_tartlet reporting for duty!

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

Final word count: 0

NOTE TO SELF: YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN WEEKEND WORD WARS.

[morgana-fire.livejournal.com]

Ok I have 2 fics I must write this weekend!! And since I haven't even started my count is at 0. Ok I can do this.

[morgana-fire.livejournal.com]

agggg well I almost got one of my fics done. I will still finish it a little later. damn it, why can't I make my stories simple, why??? anyways here is my totals. I wrote an outline before I started the story. Yep, 8 hours in the ER will give you lots of time to write...and it wasn't my daughters appendix...she's fine O_o most expensive word war ever.

outline: 1,959
fic: 6,697
TOTAL: 8,656

And i still have one more to start on T_T

[thisgirl-is.livejournal.com]

I was going to check in now, but the latest copy is on my external hard drive on the other side of the room, which is WAY too far away right now. So I will do it in the morning. *looks at clock* Later in the morning.

*yawns mightily*

[thisgirl-is.livejournal.com]

OK! Checking in with a starting count of 2970.

[leo-draconis.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a new fest fic this weekend, in addition to some much needed spring cleaning, so I'm word warring as well as dust warring, lol. My current WC is 0 since I've yet to begin. I don't focus on WC, per se, - just until the fic's done, so I have no specific WC goal. But I've got so many things to write that the needed WC is massive by default! Here's hoping I make some progress this weekend, and GL to all of you as well.

[leo-draconis.livejournal.com]

Woot! I'm not done with this fest fic but I've made MAD progress with 10,622 words written during the WW!! Thanks to everyone who chatted with me this weekend.

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

I'm working on my hp_beholder fic this weekend and I'm determined to finish it.

Starting wordcount: 1,178

I think this story will be about 12,000 words so I'm aiming to be a 10,000 word-er this weekend. Along with grocery shopping and stuff... I really need to stop procrastinating now.

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Checking in with my final tally. It's 3.30am here and I have to be up for work in about three and a half hours. Still, we should do this every weekend - I may have not done any laundry and may be without clothes for the week, but I got a helluva lot done.

Ending wordcount for hp_beholder: 11,379
Drabble: 350

Total wordcount for wordwars: 10,551 words!!!!!

I don't think I've ever been this productive. My work may not thank you tomorrow when I sleep through a number of key meetings, but I'm thanking you for this wonderful idea. <3 <3 <3

[undrsomestairs.livejournal.com]

Okay, checking in with two fics that could use some work!
Mpreg fest fic: 1,733
Merlin BB fic: 2,764

I haven't written in weeks so I'm hoping this weekend can help with that.

[cassie-black12.livejournal.com]

I need to get cracking on my hd_smoochfest fic. Starting wordcount: a big fat zero.

Also, it's not H/D but I need to add some serious words to my paperlegends fic as well. Current word count on that is: 9079

[talekayler.livejournal.com]

BB: rests at 17538
Gift fic is starting with 0!

*shoves away projects* BUT THERE IS THE NEED FOR SLEEP, WHAT IS THIS? *wants caffeine*

[talekayler.livejournal.com]

Mah check out:

My HD_BB shot up to 26649 words, a difference of 9111 words.
The gift fic ended at 1015 words, completed and can he found here (http://talekayler.livejournal.com/14858.html).
I wrote a few other assorted words, including beginning a new drabble, adding up to 574. ETA: Plus the original 511 that is the drabble in the first place, pulling it up to 1085.

So in total, I wrote 11 211.


Woot! \o/ That's better than my WW count from last time! BTW, Tale can't add.

[solas-divided.livejournal.com]

I have two fics that need completing.

WIP1: 280 words

WIP2: 0

Here's hoping to finish both!

[solas-divided.livejournal.com]

WIP1: 2,297 words

WIP2: 746 words

*sighs* just did not have enough time to write lately *is thoroughly ashamed*

[bgreenwivy.livejournal.com]

Do me Veela Starting word count: 800
Fest: 1000

Needless to say I am in and have to get a move on.

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

I have a few fics I need to get cracking on.

Smoochfest: 435
HD Big Bang: 15, 563
WIP 3: 485

Let's hope I can some of these things done. :) Good luck everyone. ^^

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

Smoochfest: 1,256
HD Big Bang: 17,152
WIP: finished :)

So all together that's over 3,000 words. I'm very happy about that. :)

[snugglemint.livejournal.com]

Ee! -Flails!-

beltane: 4,447

PB S!H: 1,930

mPreg: 0

Auction Fic: 0

PB H!D: 2,240

[starlitshore.livejournal.com]

I'm late! I currently have 21 900 words in my BB fic. I'll be editing and (hopefully) writing a fourth part this weekend. *fingers crossed*

[starlitshore.livejournal.com]

*flop* Totally didn't happen. :\

[brissygirl.livejournal.com]

Checking in: Starting word count is approx 1000. Hoping to finish this chapter and start the next by the end of the WW.

Not sure if I am going to write by hand or type. Will see what my muse says.

I Suck! :(

[brissygirl.livejournal.com]

I wrote 97 hand written words.

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

Working on my epic-fail, Conscience. Starting at 2,800 words.

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

feeling pretty damn good!

Finished chapter - 11,160
Completed New drabble - 1,880

Total Words Written: 10,240