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Weekly Writing Challenge Thread 2 - The Morning After (Deadline December 31st)
Eatay:
Shame, I came back here to reignite my writer's spirit, I feel like just freestyling with a couple of one-shots like this contest rather than my storylines.
So is this still alive or gone already?
Alfred F. Jones:
--- Quote from: Eatay on August 08, 2013, 02:18:07 PM ---Shame, I came back here to reignite my writer's spirit, I feel like just freestyling with a couple of one-shots like this contest rather than my storylines.
So is this still alive or gone already?
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That is mighty kind of you, but the thing is, the WWC is a rather significant time investment for me and Sakana and whatever other judges we have available. Coming up with a new concept, writing the prompt, then reading every single fic that gets thrown at us, then evaluating the relative merits of each one... We're busy people IRL, and a time sink like that is hard work to maintain. Add to that, the same people joining in every single WWC, week in and week out, and you get what we've got now.
If someone was willing to take over that work, I know I at least would be glad to see the WWC continue. (Even though at the end it was less of a Weekly Writing Challenge than it was a Bi-Weekly Writing Challenge.) But for my part, I can't see myself revitalizing this challenge-- at least, not in its present form. If I were to bring it back (can't speak for Sakana), it'd be in the style of Fuck Yeah Character Development's prompts (left column, bottom row), or something along those lines. As it stands, those prompts are definitely worth a look-see if you want to try your hand at one-shots. In fact, I wouldn't be against randomly selecting one of those and posting it here to have random people respond to the prompt, though the judging would either be absent or completely up to you.
Iced Fairy:
So to give you an idea on how messed up I am right now, I was wondering if the NaNoWriMo thing had died off because I hadn't seen any comments on it on IRC or in the forums. It was only ten minutes ago that I realized that's because there's a month called October in between September and November. But I'm not going to let that stop me.
Anyway! As others have heard in depth before, I'm not a real fan of NaNoWriMo. While teaching people how to keep writing is a good thing, it's my belief that the second obstacle to writing isn't number of words, but in finishing a work. While you need to start writing, at some point you also need to stop, edit, and publish the story. And that's something a lot of fanfic writers are really really terrible at. Even I'm hardly blameless here.
Thus:
MotK September/October Short Weeks!
Yeah not the same ring. I know I know....
Anyway, the contest! Your mission : submit a complete short story before October 6th! No theme, no nothing!
Except
1 - Your entry must be less then 3000 words. Not a single word more.
2 - Your entry must be a stand alone story. Not a chapter or intro to another story.
And in the interests of brevity I shall stop here. Good luck!
Sect:
--- Quote from: Iced Fairy on September 23, 2013, 11:18:33 PM ---While teaching people how to keep writing is a good thing, it's my belief that the second obstacle to writing isn't number of words, but in finishing a work. While you need to start writing, at some point you also need to stop, edit, and publish the story. And that's something a lot of fanfic writers are really really terrible at.
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THESE ARE ALL LIES AND COMPLETELY UNTRUE ABOUT MYSELF
Iced Fairy:
Just a reminder that you slackers have only a week left.
:colbert: