This is a bit of a last-minute announcement, but Antidiogenes Club IS running this weekend! Otterondeck, Pennypaperbrain, Lux Obscura, Roane and I (havingbeenbreathedout) are collaborating in Gins’s absence to cover the weekend. Yay!Here, for those new to the game, are the rules (and Gins’s copy+pasted text):
- Write as much as you can over the weekend.
That’s basically it.
As per usual, we are defining “the weekend” as going from Friday, January 18, at 6 pm Pacific (see what time that is in your timezone, or check out the countdown) and Sunday, January 20, at 6 pm Pacific. At 6 pm Pacific on Sunday, I will post a wrap-up/word-count-submission post right here, on The Antidiogenes Club, and if you submit your word count via reply or reblog on that post, it will get included in our weekend tally.
If you want to play along, here is what you can expect:
- There’s a chat room: #antidiogenes on irc.fdfnet.net, which will officially open at 5 pm Pacific Friday evening (it’s unofficially open all the time). Please feel free to come over and whine about what you are writing, how annoying writing is, how much more fun writing would be if you had superpowers/more wine/a roaring fire to lounge beside. We are going to try and encourage people to remain on topic, but we are going to be interpreting “on topic” faaaiirly loosely. But basically: free cheerleading, over in IRC. *points thataway* (More info on using IRC here, care of roane72.)
- We also will be running word wars (20 or 30 minute intense writing blasts!!) over in the chat room every now and again. There’s no schedule for these; it’s pretty much someone says “hey anyone want a word war?” and then if enough people say yes someone scrounges up a timer. But these are a quick way to get super productive, super fast.
- We’re also queuing up hourly reminder posts on antidiogenes@tumblr.com, to ask how it’s going. Feel free to reblog or reply to let us know, and to commiserate with your fellow sufferers.
Last time we ran a full round, we collectively wrote 22,109 words in our forty-eight hours of writing. Think we can top it in 2013??
Any and all wordcounts are of course welcome, and if you participate at all, you will win both bragging rights and the official right to post a hideous sparkly word count graphic like this one (from the last round):
…all over your blog/apartment/pets/children/et cetera. o/
I’ll reblog this in the morning for maximum information uptake, since we’re pulling this all together at the last possible minute. BUT WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
– hbbo
