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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 15:29:54 GMT -5
NaNoWriMo 2023 Please read the FAQ section if you are concerned about anything you have to do here. What's NaNoWriMo? What's Camp NaNoWriMo? Camp NaNoWriMo is like the regular version of NaNo in every respect but the word count - during Camp, you get to set your OWN goal! Writing Warriors? That's fine! This is a themed event in the OTW, which means that we're going to have themed activities, but you can use them to write anything! The point of this topic is to join in with a community of writers and get some writing done! What Makes the OTW Write-in Special? We will have various Fandoms' themed Word Wars, Prompts, and various other activities! If you have an idea to start an activity, or want to do something themed, or want to give an encouraging talk? Go right ahead! You don't need anyone's permission. This is about a writing - any amount. You're welcome to do this however you want! What Counts To Your Word Count? The focus will be on writing your STORY but writing any creative words will contribute to your totals, whether that's RP, short stories, a novel, clan bios etc. |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 15:32:44 GMT -5
FAQ Do I have to write something which isn't Warriors and which fits the Fandom prompts? NO. Please don't feel you have to write something OTW to participate here! The Word Wars will be various Fandom themed, the events will be various Fandom themed, and various other activities will be fandom themed. But please do write about your battle cats if you want to! You don't have to write Doctor Who to a Doctor Who-esque prompt. Do what makes you happy! Do I have to make the 50K? NOPE! Write as much or as little as you want! The idea of NaNo is to write daily. This can be one word or 10,000. You can only write 100 words this month and you'll still be more than welcome here! Do I have to be a member of NaNo . org? NOPE! You can participate here regardless! Do I have to post my story here/do I have to have proof of my word count? NO!  Your story is your story! You don't have to share anything if you don't want to! There should be a button on Google Docs or Word which calculates your word count. Or if you write by hand, you can estimate! All of the word counts are on the honor system! If you want to post your stuff, that's completely up to you! Can I participate here AND in WFF? You CAN! You will only be getting one prize though. But please do visit both if you want to! Prizes? Yep! You heard me right! All participants - if they post here with a word count update more than FIVE (5) times - will get a prize of some sort! The more you days you post with a word count/participate, the more detailed your prize will be! <3 What's a Word War, Word Sprint, Crawls, etc: These are challenges to help you reach your goal. For the benefit of those who are new to this: Word Wars: These are usually timed, and are competitive. The goal is to write for a specific amount of time, and see who writes the most! The most popular ones tend to be the 10 minute word wars and the 15 Minute Word Wars - although variations of all types can be found in here! Word Sprints: Not competitive. These are to see how much you can write in a specified amount of time, or see how long it takes you to write a specific amount of words. Crawls: These are usually long, game-like challenges that follow a specific theme, and vary wildly based on the person creating the challenge. These are less competitive, more about challenging yourself. Writing Prompts: These are idea-sparking ideas to get the juices flowing. Stuck? Take some writing prompts to get to the next chapter! I only just found this, but have already written stuff this April. Can I still join/count that in my word count/toward games? Yep! Go for it! Any other questions? Please ask! |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 15:34:05 GMT -5
Current Challenges Running: Word Wars: If you want to start one, just announce you're starting and for how long! Please tag anyone who might want to join you! Pinglist (I'll add you if you express interest in doing some! Feel free to tell me if you don't want to be added!): @mintedstarfur @kayla1097Word Sprints: If you want to start one, just announce you're starting and for how long! Crawls: To Come (There are some cool ones on the NaNo Forums or the Wiki forums.nanowrimo.org/c/reaching-50k/writing-challenges)Defeat the Beast: 10,000 words til Evil Stepmother is defeated! If you wish to apply some or all of your latest word count to this, say so in your post! (Or I'll assume it's just a normal update.) Like HP, the words you write can go toward defeating Evil Stepmother. You write 500 words just now? Apply it to defeating this Disney villain. Defeat them? You'll get a little note by your SN in the challenge about dealing the winning blow. Kayla: Defeated Loki --- Bonus applied: For every 200 words completed in a word war, deals x2 damage (i.e. if you did 400 words in a word war and then applied those words to 'Defeat the Beast' then Loki would double that damage to 800) Defeated Lord Voldemort -- Bonus applied: For every baddy you defeat (count is now 4) the default score will always be 1,500 less HP than I would have marked them down otherwise (if you notice the stats are climbing. >:3 ) Defeated Darth Vader -- Bonus applied: All villains defeated from this point onward will now up the other applied affects the other villains have. Defeated Jabberwocky -- Bonus applied: Future sight allows you to see a future villains bonus before they are defeated. Maplestone: Defeated Dracula --- Bonus applied: For every hour of time spent writing (can be a straight hour or adding up to an hour over time) add 500 points worth of damage to your score. (i.e. If you wrote for 5 minutes, then 35 minutes, then 20 minutes than your next word score damage would be ? + 400) Take a Prompt, Leave a Prompt: (Someone takes this prompt and then leaves a prompt. Please post if you do. You do not have to fit every aspect of the prompt if it doesn't fit your story!) Current Prompt: Landmine |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 15:36:03 GMT -5
Current Participants: (Please post with a word count and I'll add you up here! Optional: You can tell us what project you're working on!) Mintedstar/fur: Word Count 77,134 Sησω : Word Count 25k~ Maplestone360 : Word Count 25,023 ~ωιηтєя'ѕ ℓιℓу✬ : Word Count 34 Captain Americat : Word Count 34,417 Tanglefire : Word Count 25,007 mossecho : Word Count N/A
Word Count from Nov. 2019: Captain Americat (Kayla): Word Count 52,445 Hawkpath: Word Count 31,738 Mintedstar/fur: Word Count 91,000 The Emperor (gray): Word Count 20,779 (FR Lore: 7,579 RP/Other: 1,592 Book: 533) Project: Unnamed novel & Flight Rising lore Fishmouth: Word Count 1,457 Project: Fantasy Western AU Shiningdiamond: Word Count 3,440 Vampire Kat (kitkat): Word Count 255 (OLAS: ??? RP: 255) Project: Of Light and Shadows (+ various rps because I tend to be very slow at writing actual books) Bubbling Tsunami: Word Count 1,079 Am I a Joke to You? (jfeather): Word Count 620 Winter Lily: Word Count 53,142 Dingoleap: Word Count 50,026 Cloverleaf: Word Count 3,727 Tanglefire: Word Count 50,242 Maplestone: Word Count: 300 |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 15:39:57 GMT -5
(Whoops. Save! Just in case. And you can post after this!)
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Post by ®Hawkpath® on Nov 2, 2019 16:22:59 GMT -5
Count me in!
Word count: 1797
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 16:24:58 GMT -5
Hey, this sounds really cool! I'm not participating in NaNo, but I do hope to get a lot of writing done this month! (:
I think I'd definitely be down for a word war at some point! (:
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 16:58:09 GMT -5
Hawk: Added! Kayla: Woo! Yeah! I'd love to do some with you!  I was going to do a Word Sprint in a second here. I need to get writin'. ~ωιηтєя'ѕ ℓιℓу✬ Figured I'd tag you too, since I forgot you were into this, heh heh. Whoops? |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 17:06:44 GMT -5
Word Sprint: Starting at :10. (3:10 my time, but the :10 would match any timezone)! Going for 15 minutes.
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 17:23:11 GMT -5
Did I miss it? :/ I fell asleep XD
And, sounds good! I've never done a word sprint. I read your FAQS above, but basically it's just a time limit without the competition?
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 17:25:26 GMT -5
262 words. o3o
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 17:27:44 GMT -5
Yup! You're racing against yourself! Like, there are CRAZY people who try to word sprint for 5 minutes and get 1k. I've make it to 800 words once, but that was the closest I've gotten.
You can set up another Word Sprint or World War if you like! What times would be good? 5, 10, 30 minutes?
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 17:29:55 GMT -5
Okay, cool! Thanks for the clarification! & that's crazy! Good for them (and you!)
We can do another if you're down! Any time is fine (:
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Post by Sησω on Nov 2, 2019 17:31:49 GMT -5
mintedstar/furI would love to participate in this!
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Post by --cato phoenix on Nov 2, 2019 17:36:24 GMT -5
Well, since rp posts count I’m definitely in!
Word count: 255 (OLAS: ??? RP: 255)
Project: Of Light and Shadows (+ various rps because I tend to be very slow at writing actual books)
Should I update this post later when I have more written or post again? Not quite sure how I should do that since I’ll probably have a lot of updates
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Post by --cato phoenix on Nov 2, 2019 17:38:55 GMT -5
Oh and I think I’d like to try a word war sometime but I’ll probably have to wait until later since idk how long I can stay on rn ^^
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 17:45:01 GMT -5
^^" oh, should I be updating with my word count, too? XD If so, I'll update after the word sprint XD
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 17:50:30 GMT -5
Sησω : You're added on the Participated page! ^^ --cato phoenix : Added as well! As for the business with the word count, you can update it whenever! I'll be updating mine at the end of each day. But it's whatever you prefer. And if you could make a new post every time you do, that would be very helpful to me to keep the front updated as well! Kayla: You can if you want to! Up to you! Word Sprint at :00 (On the hour!) for 15 min.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 17:55:00 GMT -5
I'll probably keep doing Word Sprints/Word Wars all day, if I'm honest.
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Post by Sησω on Nov 2, 2019 18:07:36 GMT -5
mintedstar/furJust realized that I forgot to post what I'm working on, whoops! I plan to do two projects. The first is writing a novel that I currently don't have a name for and the second is completing lore for my Flight Rising clan. ^.^
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -5
Darn! I missed it again (because I was writing XD) So I guess I'll just 'officially' start now and count 15 minutes from :08 XD
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 18:16:00 GMT -5
445! |
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Post by --cato phoenix on Nov 2, 2019 18:21:44 GMT -5
Er....196. (Went a couple minutes over since I started a bit late)
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 18:24:41 GMT -5
Word count for the word sprint: 384 words.
I'd like to do another one, though, cuz I probably only wrote for like 5 minutes out of that time b/c I was distracted XD
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Post by fishmouth on Nov 2, 2019 18:25:20 GMT -5
I'm joining and I'd love to be on the list!
Fantasy Western AU (it's a working title lol)
word count: 627
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#f0a9e4
Name Colour
Captain Americat
"Don't frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile." - Teen Wolf
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Post by Captain Americat on Nov 2, 2019 18:25:35 GMT -5
Overall word count including the word sprint: 2,466
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 19:10:54 GMT -5
Awesome y'all! And fishmouth you've been added! Welcome to the NaNo fam! |
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Post by Sησω on Nov 2, 2019 19:12:04 GMT -5
Word count update: I have officially started and have written 180 words!
I haven't written for either of my two projects yet, but I finished a character form for the TPH RP!
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Nov 2, 2019 19:12:11 GMT -5
Word War (not sprint, I wanna try and beat y'all!!): From :25 to :45 (total: 20 min.) |
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Your story is your story! You don't have to share anything if you don't want to! There should be a button on Google Docs or Word which calculates your word count. Or if you write by hand, you can estimate! All of the word counts are on the honor system! If you want to post your stuff, that's completely up to you!
I was going to do a Word Sprint in a second here. I need to get writin'.
