Weekly Check-In Post

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Hey hey! How's it going with those stories, writers?

This week I'd like to link you all to a few sites that are helpful in, well, getting those words out. I have the feeling we've mentioned them before, but I am sure they are just as good the second time.

750 Words is a site that encourages you to write 750 words per day, and rewards you with points and such for staying on target.

Write or Die, which you have probably heard of, is the, let's say, slightly more evil version of the same concept. (You probably want the left-hand link that says "web app.") Basically, start typing, and if you stop typing, hideous things will happen. On the highest setting, if you stop typing, the program begins to delete your text.

Written? Kitten! (made by, I think, a couple of fannish people) is the kinder, nicer version of Write or Die. Every hundred words (or whatever increment you like), you are rewarded with a cute kitten. Yes. A kitten. This one is my favorite.

I hope some of those are helpful! (Don't forget to copy your text back to your word processor when you're done.) Happy writing!

Comments

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I started on Sunday, courtesy of the April Fool site which did force me to start writing but is now just a nuisance/time waster/displacement activity... And I'm intrigued by the kitten thing which I will definitely investigate even if it turns out to be even more of a time waster. *g*

Anything that eats your words has to be teh eevil.

Anyway, just passed 6000. Would have got further but I stabbed my finger with a knife while prepping veg and the sticking plaster made me make so many typos it slowed me down. I've sent a summary to my beta who is away for Easter and hopes to come back to something to edit. The trouble is, the story has decided that it wants about 27k words to do itself justice rather than 15k and I can't dissuade it.

Plus - does anyone else have the sensation of a film running and rerunning in their head once they start writing and the only way to stop it is to get to the end? The plot etc. (even some of the dialogue) is all there - it just has to get written down.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Plus - does anyone else have the sensation of a film running and rerunning in their head once they start writing and the only way to stop it is to get to the end? The plot etc. (even some of the dialogue) is all there - it just has to get written down.

All the time! It's how I write and read also. I hve to see and hear the story as it unfolds or it doesn't work for me.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Yesssss!!! But I gather we're by no means in the majority!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly that it's running in my head and I have to get it down; it's more like in order to find out what's happening I have to write it. So it's unspooling while I'm writing. If that makes sense.

And it does unspool - I just have to sit down and concentrate write.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

So you're watching your film for the first time whereas by the time I start writing I'm on the second or third involuntary re-run... But I gather some writers don't 'see' their stories in that way at all. I can't quite imagine not doing! Interesting!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I see bits in my dreams, parts I have to write, voices that are talking. So I write it down. :) Weird, I know. When I'm vidding, the song is part of my dreams also. Sometimes a particular scene pops into my head that I need for a word or line. It's the way I run. LOL!