IT'S OVER! PENCIL'S DOWN!!

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

We're done! Sunday is here, and if you've reached the end of the day, then the war is over. I hope you've been super amazingly productive these last four days. Remember: ALL WORDS ARE AWESOME WORDS!!

Please remember to let us know how you did overall with a comment on this post sometime by the end of day Tuesday. Thank you to everyone who came out to play! And remember... another word war is coming! So take a chance to catch your breath and get ready... because we'll be doing it all over again soon!

<b>Total Word War Goal:</b> <b>Total Words Written:</b> <b>Projects Worked On: </b> <b>Did you Finish a Thing?:</b> <b>If You Set 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>, Did You Meet Them?</b> <b>Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)?</b>

Comments

[nia_kantorka]

It's half past elf here and I'll stop for today.

Total Word War Goal: 1 to 1.5k
Total Words Written: Ha, 1532
Projects Worked On: FrostIronBang
Did you Finish a Thing?: Nope.
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? Wrote some words. Huzzah.
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? I'm now at the point where my MCs actually meet (and hopefully won't kill each other on the spot). Sorry, can't tell why it took them more than 4k to reach this point, but, yeah, I really like how it's going so far. :D

[khalulu]

Past your goal, yay you! And now they've met, more can happen!

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you! :)
I've never written a bang before l, but now I'm positive to make it to the first check-in when the artists will get on board. I do have to submit an amount of words for that and those will hopefully make everyone eager to read more. :)
It's pretty exciting. LOL

[tryslora]

You did awesome! Go you!

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you! :)

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Go you!!! Well done!!

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you, dicta!

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 2,500 (but my goal was actually to write however many words my Drizzle needed to be, and 2,500 was just a guess at that)
Total Words Written: 2,145
Projects Worked On: hp_drizzle
Did you Finish a Thing?: YES!! :-D
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? I met ALL THE GOALS. Except the word count, but that totally doesn't matter to me. \o/
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? Squeeing! I am excite! Thanks so much for the Word War! It really helped me do this. ♥

[khalulu]

Yay you! You finished it! I might finish my drizzle first draft today too - I have a middle section still to write, but I also have quite a bit of Sunday left here.

[nia_kantorka]

Congrats! Having finished a fic is such a great moment. :D

[tryslora]

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing!

[khalulu]

Total Word War Goal: 2000?
Total Words Written: about 2000, on fic and summary!
Projects Worked On: hp drizzle
Did you Finish a Thing?: Yes! I finished a solid draft of the drizzle fic! I just need to look it over and tinker a little to keep style consistent, and send to beta - I should be able to submit early! (Kind of unheard of for me.)
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? I didn't do anything more on pet fair, but getting drizzle mostly done clears the decks for focusing on pet fair and potentially for an erised sign-up.
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? Am very very happy! Thank you so much for this!

[nia_kantorka]

Yay, you reached your goal.Congrats!

I'd love to see your writing process as my 'outlines' are only ever notes or short sentences. I could probably learn a lot from someone more organised.

[khalulu]

Anyone on earth is more organized than me! This fic is an exception because it's based on another story so I didn't have to come up with the plot, but in general my fics are a patchwork of little scenes and scraps of dialogue that I finally piece together and call a story. So usually I can't write them in order. Your "outlines" sound like mine! I know other people map out various "arcs" and "reveals" but my mind doesn't work that way for fic.

[nia_kantorka]

Haha, that's congenial, though I admire these organized people. Well, I'm doing well enough when I have to (at work), but writing fic is fun and that shouldn't turn to 'have to's and 'must's. :)

[tryslora]

Excellent on both making goal and finishing a thing! Go you!!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! Go you!!

[josephinestone.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 12k
Total Words Written: 2923
Projects Worked On: hp-drizzle
Did you Finish a Thing?: no
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? No
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? I got some words, even if it was only 1/4 of my goal. We'll see how next week goes.

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

But you made words and that is wonderful!

[tryslora]

Excellent, yay words!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of words!! Good going!!

[nia_kantorka]

You wrote a lot of words. Yay!

[khalulu]

You wrote a lot of words, quite a bit more than I did - good work! Hopefully it's the foundation that makes the rest come easier!

[ravenclawsquill]

Total Word War Goal: 2,000
Total Words Written: 1,860
Projects Worked On: HP_Drizzle
Did you Finish a Thing?: Nothing finished, but I did make some progress.
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? I got a little bit closer to finalising my other short fic.
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? I came close to the word goal, but I actually spend much of Sunday re-writing what I wrote on Saturday, as it was rubbish!

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

no words are rubbish!

[tryslora]

All words are needed! Some just take the place of other words, until they're ready to be written. GO YOU!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Re-writing goes a long way!! Well done, you!!

[ravenclawsquill]

Brilliant, I love the idea that the rubbish words are taking the place of good words - they're just keeping the spaces warm!

[nia_kantorka]

Congrats, so many words.

Had to laugh because I rewrite my stories all the time and if there weren't deadlines I'd probably never got a single fic finished. We should just count all the words, even those lost to the delete button. What high word counts we'd get. :p

[khalulu]

Lots of words and then you made sure they were good words - good work!

[tryslora]

Total Word War Goal: 2k (5k stretch)
Total Words Written: 416
Projects Worked On: PHU
Did you Finish a Thing?: Hah, no. Not even close. Not even the short thing I worked on.
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? Sort of.
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)?
I would really like to reach a time where I'm able to find words consistently and time and brain to put them on paper.

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

All words are good!! Go you!!

[tryslora]

Thank you.

[ravenclawsquill]

It's 416 more than 0, though!

[tryslora]

That is definitely true. And given that they came during an 8 day streak where I wrote a total of 1100 words, they were my best day!

[nia_kantorka]

I'm sure there are better and worse times to write. Sometimes the words just don't want to come in masses. But yay you did write some.

[tryslora]

July has been horrible this year, worse than usual. I am trying to climb out of the slump now. Thank you.

[khalulu]

You broke the ice, and now hopefully those words will pull some more after them - good work!

[tryslora]

I've had two days where I've written since then, so your wishes may be on track. Thanks!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: 8k
Total Words Written: 3915
Projects Worked On: various and sundry
Did you Finish a Thing?: nope, but did make useful headway
If You Set Other Goals (get characters to hook up, find a way to work in some smut/angst/fluff, reach a certain plot point, whatever), Did You Meet Them? I didn't meet my word goal, but I did make headway towards getting back into a routine, which is v important.
Anything To Share (flailing, squeeing, sobbing, etc.)? I will be writing, and hanging out in the chatzy room, a lot this week if people want to keep the momentum going!

[ravenclawsquill]

Almost 4k words is still great, and sticking to a routine of writing is more than half of the battle, isn't it?

Hope to see you around in the chatzy room. :)

[nia_kantorka]

Wow, you wrote lots of words. Congrats!

I'm sure the rest will come along as well this week. You go! :D

[khalulu]

Wow, you wrote a lot - good job!

[nia_kantorka]

Wow, you wrote lots of words. Congrats!

I'm sure the rest will come along as well this week. You go! :D

[disapparater.livejournal.com]

Total Word War Goal: All the words/3k/whatever i can manage
Total Words Written: 1118
Projects Worked On: hp_drizzle
Did you Finish a Thing?: Nooooope.
If You Set Other Goals, Did You Meet Them? Hydrated: Yes. Not distracted: No.
Anything To Share? Meh.