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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
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littlebutfierceIt's been mentioned that it might be useful to have the info about sprints & sessions consolidated into one post. Good idea! Here's some quick & dirty info:
Both writing sprints & sessions are conducted via group chat. Anyone can run a sprint or a session (especially welcome because we have members in a wide variety of timezones), & we welcome people announcing them to the comm.
A sprint is where several people meet in a chatroom & then write for a short specified period of time--say, 20 minutes. There's a quick break, & people then might go on to do more sprints as well. Some people compete to see who can write the most words in a sprint; some people then share what they've written with other people in the chat. (Some people, like me, find that too scary. ;)
A session is longer--ideally 2 hours or more. People come into the chatroom, say hi & maybe talk about what they're going to work on. Then people stop chatting & start writing, with short breaks, if they want, every half-hour or hour, to commiserate or cheer or whatever.
Edit: Writing sessions are now run on IRC, where there is a semi-permanent chat room; see this post for details.
The person who volunteers to run the sprint or session will post beforehand confirming the time & the name of the chatroom--for example, WriteThisFanficSessions is the room name I use.
You need AIM to get into the chats (unless, as above, people agree to use Gmail chat or another method beforehand). You can use a web client like Meebo to join the chat in your browser, or another client like Adium. This comment below gives details on how to join a session using AIM alone.
There are step-by-step tutorials (w/screenshots!) for several different chat clients here that may be useful!
Please let me know if there's other information that should be included in this post & I'll edit it. I'll also add a link to this entry to the comm's sticky post.
Both writing sprints & sessions are conducted via group chat. Anyone can run a sprint or a session (especially welcome because we have members in a wide variety of timezones), & we welcome people announcing them to the comm.
A sprint is where several people meet in a chatroom & then write for a short specified period of time--say, 20 minutes. There's a quick break, & people then might go on to do more sprints as well. Some people compete to see who can write the most words in a sprint; some people then share what they've written with other people in the chat. (Some people, like me, find that too scary. ;)
A session is longer--ideally 2 hours or more. People come into the chatroom, say hi & maybe talk about what they're going to work on. Then people stop chatting & start writing, with short breaks, if they want, every half-hour or hour, to commiserate or cheer or whatever.
Edit: Writing sessions are now run on IRC, where there is a semi-permanent chat room; see this post for details.
You need AIM to get into the chats (unless, as above, people agree to use Gmail chat or another method beforehand). You can use a web client like Meebo to join the chat in your browser, or another client like Adium. This comment below gives details on how to join a session using AIM alone.
There are step-by-step tutorials (w/screenshots!) for several different chat clients here that may be useful!
Please let me know if there's other information that should be included in this post & I'll edit it. I'll also add a link to this entry to the comm's sticky post.
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littlebutfierceI missed not having a writing session last week, but I was too burnt-out to even think about one, really.
I'll run one this Saturday, though, at 4 PM GMT (what time is that for you?). It will be in the chat room WriteThisFanficSessions.
Hope to see some of you there!
And again, please feel free to organize sessions & announce them here as well. I know time zones &/or other commitments make it impossible for some people to make sessions at times when I (for example) can run them--but hopefully some people in other time zones might like to run one sometime.
Instructions & more info on writing sessions here. Feel free to ask questions if something isn't clear.
I'll run one this Saturday, though, at 4 PM GMT (what time is that for you?). It will be in the chat room WriteThisFanficSessions.
Hope to see some of you there!
And again, please feel free to organize sessions & announce them here as well. I know time zones &/or other commitments make it impossible for some people to make sessions at times when I (for example) can run them--but hopefully some people in other time zones might like to run one sometime.
Instructions & more info on writing sessions here. Feel free to ask questions if something isn't clear.