WELCOME TO hd_writers's GSD WEEK || YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2012

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

DRACO AND HARRY WANT YOU TO WRITE ALL THE WORDS!

GET S**T DONE (GSD) WEEK BEGINS NOW!

To participate, please reply to this post using the template below:

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
2. What is your goal for the day?
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
6. Do you have any snippets to share?

We'll have a daily check-in post so you can track your progress.

Also, remember our Chatzy rooms are available for support, comraderie, and mini word wars. The Chatzy rooms are available 24-7 for writing discussion and support: There's the regular HD Writers room and the SRS BZNS room for timed writing challenges and word wars. 18+

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[tryslora]

How long counts for the week? *grins*

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
Minimum of 750 words a day, or a little over 5k words for the week. I need to finish my nextgenfest piece, write at least one chapter on Bullies, and a couple of chapters on the big bang I'm doing. This is probably more than 5k worth of stuff. Oh, and if this includes the weekend, I hope I will also have to do my next LDWS piece, if I make it through to next round!

2. What is your goal for the day?
750 words at least.

3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
Er, see above. Definitely multiple.

4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
bigbangmixup, ldws (hopefully), and nextgenfest

5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
Haven't been able to balance writing, life, work, gaming, sleep lately... last night sleep fell off. Oops.

6. Do you have any snippets to share?
Everything new is anonymous! Ask me later this week and I'll share something new from Bullies or the BBM piece.

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

1. Currently need to finish:
eagle_exchange - just restarted this as what I had was wordy but not working.
helpthesouth Merlin fic for fire_juggler - restarted this too after finishing it! See a pattern?
hds_beltane - just 500 words into this so far.
H/D fic for subtlefire, no deadline but would like it completed by mid-Feb.
New Merlin WiP needs starting.

2. Daily goal is only 500 words on weekdays but 5k on weekends. Am away overnight on Friday to Saturday evening.
3. I'll be working on all of the above and if none of those inspire me, my go to yet-to-see-the-light-of-day WiP will get some new words.
4. Just eagle_exchange, hds_beltane and slythindor100 LDWS which I may well get kicked out of this week so we'll see. hp_kinkfest and hd_remix but fics are finished so yay!! I'm not allowed to sign up for anymore unless I only have one other on the go.
5. Pitfalls are my love of procrastination and being tired because of work all the time.
6. No snippets today.

[kjp-013.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
I want to finish my hd_remix fic by the end of this week. It's all written, it just needs editing and typing it all up.
2. What is your goal for the day?
Type and edit at least 500 words a day.
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
I'm only going to be focusing on my remix fic, but if I finish it, I have many one shots half written. I could definitely do with finishing one or two of them!
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
hd_remix I am stupidly excited for it!
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
I started three different remixes for three different fics, but I finally settled on one!
6. Do you have any snippets to share?
Nope. Iz sekrit.

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) Wizsprogs on the finishing stretch, Harlequin, Kinkfest (on which I have 0 words), Dysfuncentine (zero words), and Beltane!
2. What is your goal for the day? To Finish Wizsprogs and get off to beta!
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? I bounce around. I get bored easily with just one thing. >.>
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? All are for fests. I don't wanna think about personal projects that are in need of finishes. XD
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?I have made progress! I have written a total of 15k and some odd words for two of these fics this past week so YAY!
6. Do you have any snippets to share? I fail enough at anon as it is! XD

[skriftlig.livejournal.com]

I need to get shit done!

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) Oh God, I must make seriousserious progress on these hp_kinkfest, which I'm really of struggling with and hd_remix, which I'm am so, so behind on.

2. What is your goal for the day? Hopefully a minimum of 500 words per day, but I don't seem able to get into a routine with writing every day.

3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Multiple!

4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? ZOMG, in addition to the two above, I've signed up for the dracotops_harry fest, round 6 of daisychain_drab, the current H/D LDWS at slythindor100 (at least until the results on Friday) and I might contribute something to hd_owlpost if possible.

5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? Work being busy right now is my biggest problem. But I had a bit of a breakthrough with one fic this weekend (still only managed 120 or so words though, but it was a start).

6. Do you have any snippets to share? Um.. okay, but it's not been edited or beta'd or anything and is subject to change if I realise it's crap.

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Scorpius leant back heavily into the sofa, trying to squash the trembling in his shoulders. He hated himself for the involuntary tears pushing behind his eyelids, and the way his breath shuddered in his throat. He wished Teddy would move off of him so he could get up and get away from here.

“It's okay.” Scorpius felt a finger on his cheek and another under his chin. Teddy's hand was warm and still smelled of Scorpius' come. “Look at me.”

Scorpius clenched his jaw. Teddy's pity was worse than anger. He had to leave before Teddy said some shit about them still being friends.

“Scorpius. Please.”

[kitty_fic]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) This week I'm playing catch up. I'm so far behind right now on fests and challenges that I can't even see the finish line. I'd like to be at least one step ahead by the end of the week
2. What is your goal for the day? I want to FINISH something today. I think that would go a long way towards motivating me!
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Multiple through the week!
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? Too many at the moment. I'd be embarrassed to list them all >.<
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? I've had major writer's block for weeks and no progress at all in January! So I'm looking forward to getting things done this week!
6. Do you have any snippets to share? None yet :P

[deirdre-aithne.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? Since I just seem to have gotten the muse back, goal is to work on Dominating Draco and try to finish the chapter I'm on. I also want to work on co-writes with Lorca to be sure the muse holds.
2. What is your goal for the day? Erm...Get a good start on the current chapter of DD.
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Multiple as always. Just for once it's multiple projects with no real deadlines.
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? One fest, but it's co-write and a ways off yet.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? So far, no progress because the muse was on an unplanned vacation until last night.
6. Do you have any snippets to share? Not today...

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week?
I'd like to finish an overdue chapter as well as wrap my head around podfic recording and remastering. Warning: old dog attempting new tricks....
2. What is your goal for the day?
600 words/day, 15MB/day
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
the epic, Conscience (http://archiveofourown.org/works/323237/navigate), now in multimedia
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
Never. I know better.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
Yes. Roughly 450 words just this morning.
Also, I figured out how to get close to the microphone without breathing on it--involves a scarf.
6. Do you have any snippets to share?
Podcast Teaser (http://sordidhumors.tumblr.com/post/16350937504/a-teaser-from-the-upcoming-podcast-of-conscience)

[sara-holmes.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) Sort out Number Seven Chapters 12-16, get a headstart on the HPrarepair story I want to write.
2. What is your goal for the day? To stay awake.
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? I have five things on the go but those two are the biggies.
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? RAREPAIR BABY.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? Chapter twelve hates me. I don't care if I only get 1000 words done as long as it gets out of my way.
6. Do you have any snippets to share?Number Seven - "That wonderful ridiculous wanker, putting Harry through ten minutes of bloody torture only to turn up just as Harry had asked. God, if he were standing closer Harry would bloody kiss him."

[wantsunicorns.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) Get most of my hp_nextgen_fest fic done writing and all of it done plotting and all the scenes done sketching out, so I can simply write them whenever I have a free minute, because I already know what they are supposed to be like.
2. What is your goal for the day? I have no idea, mostly because I need to work every day, alway between 4 to 9 hours and depending on the day I've had I might do 500 words or 5K
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Probably only the one thing, but I might just give one of my H/D wips a spin or that Scabior/Hermione/Lucius fic I've plotted out.
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? Only hp_nextgen_fest, am still contemplating signing up for dracotops_harry and dystopiabigbang
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? After letting it lie for a bit to recharge my batteries, the whole thing has taken on a life of its on and the plot pretty much writes itself, if I leave it enough room :)
6. Do you have any snippets to share? Not sure it's allowed, because it's an anon fest. So not right now, no.

[naturegirlrocks.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
Finish my prisoner_fest and my hd_getlucky, and a few more things
2. What is your goal for the day?
To figure out how Harry ends up in Draco's bed...
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
multiple
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
Oh, a few...
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
I love my new iphone writing app! I can write fanfic while standing in line at the supermarket! Progress!
6. Do you have any snippets to share?
Yes, but then I have to kill you...

[imera.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? I'm planning to finish as many fest fics as possible.
2. What is your goal for the day? hopefully 1500 words each day
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? multiple
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? Yes, too many. Kinkfest, Harry submits, Sceasleycest, daisychain, next gen, canon merlin, get lucky, draco tops harry and hg-lm ficexchange.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?watching series and movies has kept me from writing as much as I want to.
6. Do you have any snippets to share? Can’t find any right now :(

[wintervixen86.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
Minimum 1,000 words a day. I want to finish my hp_prisonerfest which I am struggling with and work on anything else on my TO DO LIST (http://wintervixen86.livejournal.com/33078.html)

2. What is your goal for the day?
5k :)

3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
Multiple. A mix of fanfiction and original.

4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
Yes. Oh my god, so many. See TO DO LIST (http://wintervixen86.livejournal.com/33078.html)

5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
I've made heaps of progress this year so far. I'm up to date, haven't needed any extensions. I was in Melbourne last week for the tennis, so I couldn't write as much as I wanted, but I am still up to take with my getyourwordsout pledge.

6. Do you have any snippets to share?
From my original fic:

Teal looked around the club. It was close to three in the morning and Villenova was packed. Hiding in the shadows on the far side of the room, Teal watched with barely suppressed revulsion as sweaty bodies writhed together on the dance floor, washing down drugs with alcohol and anything else that happened to be cheap and making its rounds. Teal spotted pills, powder and liquids in various colours, sometimes being dealt but mostly just passed from hand to hand. Sharing was evidently caring at Villenova.

As far as nightclubs went, it wasn’t the seediest room she had ever been in. Villenova catered for a younger clientele and Teal could almost feel the unleashed excitement that hovered in the air. There was nothing quite like a room of recently deceased twenty-something’s hyped up on the type of narcotics that could be bought and sold freely without anyone else saying otherwise. Teal imagined that could be somewhat liberating after a lifetime of rules and obligations, but these souls weren’t here to party, they were here to forget.

[undrsomestairs.livejournal.com]

Eeee, I totally needed one of these. Excited!

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
Finish my hp-getlucky fic and make way more progress on my gleebang fic. Possibly start my spn-j2-bigbang fic, or at least plot it out more.
2. What is your goal for the day?
Finish my hp-getlucky fic. And my homework. xD
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
Multiple.
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
Two big bangs and a fest.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
After hardly working on my gleebang for the past however many months, I now have 2K done and feel good about being able to write more. Also feeling good about my hp-getlucky fic, which I started and then restarted so now I like it and it's nearly done.
6. Do you have any snippets to share?
Not at the moment. I'm typing this up from a Sac State parking lot on my phone while I wait for it to be time to take the TEAS, so snippets are unavailable. xD

[undrsomestairs.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what app is it that you're using?

[undrsomestairs.livejournal.com]

Your to-do list is intense! Good luck with all that writing! Also, we're both doing gleebang! Fun!

[wintervixen86.livejournal.com]

On the one hand it's daunting, but on the other it's kind of exciting :)
What are you writing about for gleebang?

[naturegirlrocks.livejournal.com]

It is called "Write 2", or "Skriva (Write) 2" in my Swedish app-store.

[hpfangirl71.livejournal.com]

OMG... that is totally not crap and I want a link when its done LOL

[pessen03.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
I would like to finish at least one fic. Around 3K I think...

2. What is your goal for the day?
To write.. Maybe 500words per day. The main thing is that I have progress when the week is up.

3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
I'll start with one fest-fic and if I finish that I start with another..

4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
Yes Merlin_Canon. But I also have fics I've promised friends.

5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
Not now. I'm awfully sick and feel bad but I have hopes I feel better before the week is up.

6. Do you have any snippets to share?
No I haven't started on any fic yet.

[misbehavingmom.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? 500 words/day
2. What is your goal for the day? 500
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Multiple
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges? Monthly challenges
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
6. Do you have any snippets to share?

[jakuako.livejournal.com]

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?)
Only one project (aside from keeping up with my course work): hds_beltane. I'm hoping I can get at least half-way through it, which is an estimate of about 35-40k words (I already have 22k, so huzzah!).

2. What is your goal for the day?
Today? Nothing in particular, because I have a night class so I'll be home late. >_<

3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects?
Just the one.

4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?
hds_beltane

5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls?
I've made good progress on Beltane, but my one pitfall was that I had to drop my other fest because I decided that with my course load being what it is this term, I wouldn't have time to finish my submission. :(

6. Do you have any snippets to share?
:X

[jakuako.livejournal.com]

Yayayaya, you can do it!! \o/

[talekayler.livejournal.com]

Today? Nothing in particular, because I have a night class so I'll be home late. Worst. News. Ever.

You're very insane and I adore you for it. :D *snuggles and twirls you*

[talekayler.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling I'm shooting myself in the foot for signing up.

1. What are your writing goals for the week? (projects to finish, word counts, etc?) Finish hd_remix/ get a couple hundred words a day.
2. What is your goal for the day? Open the document? Put away my editing stuff, and clear my plate so I can write.
3. Will you be working on a single project or multiple projects? Multiple, always multiple.
4. Are you participating in any fests, exchanges or challenges?Yuppers! hd_remix and hds_beltane, which I am super excited to devote all my time to. \o/ On top of all the fics that I had promised to have done by now.
5. Have you made any progress or had any pitfalls? Ah, no progress at all this year... in much of any writing endeavours. Pitfalls being: work, work #2 and moving (again).
6. Do you have any snippets to share? It's all anon anyway. ;)