Monday, February 20th, 2012

[personal profile] anehan
In the poll about the community's chatroom, IRC won by two votes. Therefore, the community has a semi-permanent chatroom on IRC. The network is irc.sff.net and the channel #writethisfanfic.

A handy guide to IRC here. It's the #yuletide channel guide, but the same principles apply. Just change the channel name.

NB! There is no official staffing in the chatroom.

Mods, could this entry be linked to from the sticky post?
[personal profile] linaewen
Thanks for everyone's input yesterday!  It's encouraging to see how many of us are managing the amount of writing that makes us feel successful.

Now then, on to another aspect of writing that isn't always quite so encouraging, as reflected by the following sometimes-true quote of the day:

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
-- Jack London 

1.  How has your "inspiration clubbing" gone today?
  • I'm writing!
  • I'm researching!
  • I'm editing!
  • I'm posting!
  • I'm taking a break!
  • I'm totally uninspired today!
  • I'm wishing I had time to write, but I'm just too busy with other things...
2.  On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most positive, how are you feeling about your writing efforts today -- and why did you choose that number?

3.  For discussion:  What do you do to get yourself inspired, if inspiration is attempting to elude you?

[personal profile] littlebutfierce
It's time to sign up for the March WIP challenge!

Some people join the challenge midmonth, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways.

But for those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Signups will be open until the end of February.


  • Level of challenge: 1 chapter, 1000 words, 1 fic finished, whatever you like
  • Fandom(s) involved: if you know at this point
  • What you're looking for from the challenge: this could be as vague or specific as you like: someone to be accountable to, someone to remind you to write, someone to bounce ideas off, etc.
  • What you could offer other participants yourself: ditto!
  • How people should contact you: DW message, e-mail, IM etc.
  • Time zone: useful for seeing who might be up for a writing session at a time convenient to you


Copypaste below:



I couldn't continue to run this challenge without assistance with the daily check-in posts. Many thanks to everyone who's helped with the check-ins before!

Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping out. A week per person would be ideal (I usually assign weeks running Sunday-Saturday just for consistency). I'm happy to help come up with suggestions for discussion topics (& Friday or Saturday is usually the general chat/snippet/beta-seeking etc. post). March 18-24 is already covered, but any other weeks are fair game.

(& if you've completed a fic through the challenge, don't forget our collection on AO3! If you need AO3 invites, let me know.)
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