It’s Thursday, it’s November, it’s NaNoWriMo… you know what that means: copy-paste time.
The Antidiogenes Club is running this weekend—and, if we can pull it off, every weekend in November!!
Here are the rules:
- Write as much as you can over the weekend.
That’s basically it.
For my own personal convenience, I am defining “the weekend” as going from Friday, November 9, at 6 pm Pacific (see what time that is in your timezone, or check out the countdown) and Sunday, November 11, 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 a pony/a warmer blanket/Anthea’s talent for heels. 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 collectively wrote 89,995 words (whew!) in our forty-nine hours of writing. Anyone taking bets on whether or not we can beat that this weekend?? It’ll be a challenge—we’re one hour short!
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/
This weekend, I’ll have as my modly partners in crime ally-wonderland, havingbeenbreathedout, and lux-obscura, joining in to help me fill up the queue and whip you all into shape in the chat room. Go team go!
– fizzygins
