January sign up

[lilly_c]

It's time to sign up for the January WIP challenge! The previous month can be found here.

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 December.

• 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:

<b>Level of challenge:</b> <b>Fandom(s) involved:</b> <b>What you're looking for from the challenge:</b> <b>What you could offer other participants yourself:</b> <b>How people should contact you:</b> <b>Time zone:</b>

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).

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

Comments

[fleetsparrow]

Level of challenge: Full outline for 10-20k of Het Big Bang.

Fandom(s) involved: Batman/DCU

What you're looking for from the challenge: Motivation and someone to bounce ideas off of.

What you could offer other participants yourself: Editing, proofreading, encouragement, and idea bouncing.

How people should contact you: Email or Discord works best. I'm at bsykitty AT gmail DOT com or Discord: Fleet Sparrow#9953.

Time zone: PST

[samuraiter]

Level of challenge: 10,000 words in a month.

Fandom(s) involved: Many and varied.

What you're looking for from the challenge: Routine.

What you could offer other participants yourself: Beta detail, cheerleading, and hosting duty.

How people should contact you: PM @ DW

Time zone: EST

[marsdragon]

Level of challenge: At least 1000 words of something a week

Fandom(s) involved: Various, but probably Fatal Fury

What you're looking for from the challenge: Accountability, routine

What you could offer other participants yourself: Reminders, betaing

How people should contact you: Email, my journal name at gmail.

Time zone: PST

[linaewen]

Level of challenge: Write at least 444 words a day, to eventually post a new chapter for one of the WIPs I keep ignoring.

Fandom(s) involved: Tolkien universe

What you're looking for from the challenge: Reminder to be consistent in writing, encouragement to keep going

What you could offer other participants yourself: The same, plus encouragement through doing a weekly check-in or two doing the month

How people should contact you: DW PM

Time zone: CST

[badfalcon]

Level of challenge: Pick one WIP and write at least 10 days in the month on it - preferably finished

Fandom(s) involved: Stargate SG-1

What you're looking for from the challenge: Accountability, cheerleading, someone to bounce ideas off

What you could offer other participants yourself: As above

How people should contact you: DW inbox

Time zone: GMT

[crisplydegrading]

Level of challenge: At least an hour of daily writing (not including edits) on my nightmare WIP; attend drop-in writing group sessions at my local library as possible. Stretch goal: have it postable by January 24, but I'm not going to break my ass over it. This isn't NaNo.

Fandom(s) involved: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and -- I mean, listen, I read vintage queer theory for fun, if you give me shit like this I'm going to GO PLACES, and they're going to be objectively horrifying.

And then I'm going to have a months-long fit of anxiety-induced block, and create an entirely new sock URL and Ao3 account just to mention this fucking horrorshow in public.

What you're looking for from the challenge: Routine, cheerleading, potentially someone to bounce ideas and snippets off if the target audience 1. exists outside my head; 2. includes anyone else who's participating.

What you could offer other participants yourself: pretty much the same thing.

How people should contact you: DW inbox or email (my journal name @ gmail)

Time zone: EST, technically, but I'm between jobs and I have a sleep phase disorder

[crookedspoon]

Level of challenge: 1 chapter outline of a WIP.

Fandom(s) involved: DCU/Batman

What you're looking for from the challenge: Accountability, reminder, maybe idea bouncing and cheerleading

What you could offer other participants yourself: The same

How people should contact you: Discord. Email. You can use DMs if you leave your email in it.

Time zone: UTC + 1

[tamaraaeknight]

Level of challenge: keep adding words to my het_bigbang fic

Fandom(s) involved: Diagnosis Murder

What you're looking for from the challenge: Encouragement

What you could offer other participants yourself: Same

How people should contact you: PM

Time zone: GMT