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Jul. 23rd, 2005 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aidenfireSo, yesterday I mentioned starting a writing comm. It has been started, and the sign-up is here.
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The community information is under the cut. Basically, it involves setting a goal for a certain amount of words each week, and being on a team with other people with similar goals who'll work with you and each other to help everyone accomplish what they want to. Even if you're not interested in it yourself, please pimp this far and wide.
Rules
1. Sign up by July 30 for the first round. Teams will be assigned on July 31, and the writing will start on the first day of August.
2. Commit. If you say you're in, you need to be in.
3. Don't be stupid--don't flame other members or start wank or be an asshole in general.
How It Works
Each person will sign up by filling out this poll and saying how much they plan to write each week. These goals can be as grand or as modest as you wish--you're the one who's going to have to achieve them. The members with the most similar goals will be put on teams together. This way, if one member is unable to meet their goal, it will be more fair to ask a team mate to pick up the slack. For example, if someone had a goal of 500 words a week and they were on a team with someone with a 10,000 words a week goal, it wouldn't be reasonable for the more prolific member to ask someone who has almost no time/drive to write to cover 1000 words. Teams will get certain amounts of points for certain things (detailed below) and the team with the most points at the end of the month wins. After one month, there will be a new registration where new people can join or old ones can leave if they wish.
Each team will have their own community where they can rant about the plot detail that won't work out, or ask someone to pick up an extra x amount of words for them, or just talk to their teammates. At the end of the week, each team member will post their final word count. One person from the team will go to the home community (this,writemore) and post each person's word count compared to their goal, and the team's overall word count compared to the overall goal. Then a mod (most likely myself) will tabulate scores and award points.
Points
Points will be dished out at the end of each week as follows:
1 point for each individual member who met their goal
2 points for each member who exceeded their goal without covering someone else on their team.
3 points if a team member doubles their goal.
4 points if an entire team doubles their goal. However, if a team doubles their goal twice in a row, they'll need to up their goal.
4 points for the team meeting their goal
5 points if each individual member meets their goal?
5 point bonus to the team who produced the most over their goal, percentage-wise. Example--Person A said they were going to write 1000 words. They end up writing 1500 words. That's 150% of what they were going to write. Person B said they were going to write 100 words. They end up writing 150 words. Again, 150% of what they were going to write, so both people are at the same level. This may seem slanted towards the less verbose writers, but it's the only way I could think of to make a team with smaller goals competitive with a team with members out to write Order of the Phoenix in a month. If anyone has a better idea, let me know
Miscellaneous
~Any kind of writing is fair game, so long as it's not required for some other purpose. If the short story you write is an assignment, it doesn't count. If you work on a newspaper and write an article, that doesn't count. If anyone is making you write other than yourself, it doesn't count. Other than that, anything is good. Fanfiction, original fiction, meta, essays, poetry, editorials, etc, it doesn't matter. The point here is to write, not to write ______.
~This is on a honor system. You are not required to post a link to your work (though feel free to, in your team community!), because I understand that some writing is not to be shared.
Change of plans. You WILL be required to link to your work in your group community, although it can be scrambled, a la NaNoWriMo (see this for more information). If this causes problems for you, please contact me. I'll try to be understanding and work with you.
~Feel free to pimp this! The more people playing, the more fun.
~Inspiration came fromfanaticize, which got inspiration from wip_it_good.
Questions?
I'm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aidenfire, your friendly mod. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to drop me a comment at my journal or email me: aidenfire(at)livejournal.com
Everyone is welcome! I can't wait to see where this will go.
writemorewritemorewritemoreThe community information is under the cut. Basically, it involves setting a goal for a certain amount of words each week, and being on a team with other people with similar goals who'll work with you and each other to help everyone accomplish what they want to. Even if you're not interested in it yourself, please pimp this far and wide.
Rules
1. Sign up by July 30 for the first round. Teams will be assigned on July 31, and the writing will start on the first day of August.
2. Commit. If you say you're in, you need to be in.
3. Don't be stupid--don't flame other members or start wank or be an asshole in general.
How It Works
Each person will sign up by filling out this poll and saying how much they plan to write each week. These goals can be as grand or as modest as you wish--you're the one who's going to have to achieve them. The members with the most similar goals will be put on teams together. This way, if one member is unable to meet their goal, it will be more fair to ask a team mate to pick up the slack. For example, if someone had a goal of 500 words a week and they were on a team with someone with a 10,000 words a week goal, it wouldn't be reasonable for the more prolific member to ask someone who has almost no time/drive to write to cover 1000 words. Teams will get certain amounts of points for certain things (detailed below) and the team with the most points at the end of the month wins. After one month, there will be a new registration where new people can join or old ones can leave if they wish.
Each team will have their own community where they can rant about the plot detail that won't work out, or ask someone to pick up an extra x amount of words for them, or just talk to their teammates. At the end of the week, each team member will post their final word count. One person from the team will go to the home community (this,
writemore) and post each person's word count compared to their goal, and the team's overall word count compared to the overall goal. Then a mod (most likely myself) will tabulate scores and award points.Points
Points will be dished out at the end of each week as follows:
1 point for each individual member who met their goal
2 points for each member who exceeded their goal without covering someone else on their team.
3 points if a team member doubles their goal.
4 points if an entire team doubles their goal. However, if a team doubles their goal twice in a row, they'll need to up their goal.
4 points for the team meeting their goal
5 points if each individual member meets their goal?
5 point bonus to the team who produced the most over their goal, percentage-wise. Example--Person A said they were going to write 1000 words. They end up writing 1500 words. That's 150% of what they were going to write. Person B said they were going to write 100 words. They end up writing 150 words. Again, 150% of what they were going to write, so both people are at the same level. This may seem slanted towards the less verbose writers, but it's the only way I could think of to make a team with smaller goals competitive with a team with members out to write Order of the Phoenix in a month. If anyone has a better idea, let me know
Miscellaneous
~Any kind of writing is fair game, so long as it's not required for some other purpose. If the short story you write is an assignment, it doesn't count. If you work on a newspaper and write an article, that doesn't count. If anyone is making you write other than yourself, it doesn't count. Other than that, anything is good. Fanfiction, original fiction, meta, essays, poetry, editorials, etc, it doesn't matter. The point here is to write, not to write ______.
~
Change of plans. You WILL be required to link to your work in your group community, although it can be scrambled, a la NaNoWriMo (see this for more information). If this causes problems for you, please contact me. I'll try to be understanding and work with you.
~Feel free to pimp this! The more people playing, the more fun.
~Inspiration came from
fanaticize, which got inspiration from wip_it_good.Questions?
I'm
aidenfire, your friendly mod. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to drop me a comment at my journal or email me: aidenfire(at)livejournal.comEveryone is welcome! I can't wait to see where this will go.
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:42 pm (UTC)You've already got sweat and tears.
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-23 11:54 pm (UTC)OMG! Just thought of something... do LJ-posts (or related, blog post in general) count towards word-count? It would see like they would, out of principle...
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-24 12:06 pm (UTC)I'm going away for...roughly a week (maybe less, actually) will this affect the judging for my team if I'm not back in time for the weekly, erm, judging (does this make any sense at all?) I suppose I'm trying to say: will this be a problem?
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-24 01:44 pm (UTC)Sounds like a brill idea love. Wish I had time at the moment, but it looks pretty full for me until october - so maybe I can join then?
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, of course! I hope to keep this running for quite a while. Thanks for the support!
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Date: 2005-07-30 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-30 01:44 pm (UTC)