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Briefly interrupting this challenge to post a quick promo for one of our affiliates, since it's yearly sign-up season!

Want to plunge into your writing in 2021? Write with Get Your Words Out, a year-long writing challenge dedicated to helping you get your words out.


[img: notebook on wooden desktop with "GYWO 2021" printed
in large white letters with a black shadow. under that, "writing
decathlon" in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Thirteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net


Choose one of our ten pledge levels to track either your word count or your writing habit, and join a supportive community of writers who are available to celebrate your successes, vent your frustrations, and help you overcome roadblocks. GYWO also provides monthly challenges, prompts, discussions about writing, writing sprints, and more!

Our members include original writers, fan writers, published authors, and hobbyists. If you write, you’re welcome at GYWO.

In addition to [community profile] getyourwordsout, GYWO posts content on [twitter.com profile] gywo, [tumblr.com profile] gywo, and Discord. We also have our own website for additional features.

Please read the membership requirements and our guidelines for more information. And then visit the DW community to make your pledge.

Sign-ups for 2021 are open through January 18, 2021.

Thank you, [personal profile] autobotscoutriella for allowing us to advertise here!
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[personal profile] autobotscoutriella
Briefly interrupting this challenge to post a quick promo for one of our affiliates, since it's yearly sign-up season! 

Want to plunge into your writing in 2020? Write with Get Your Words Out, a year-long writing challenge dedicated to helping you get your words out.


[img: notebook and pen on wooden desktop with "GYWO 2020"
printed in large white letters with a black shadow. under that,
"writing decathlon" in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Twelve!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net


Choose one of our ten pledge levels to track either your word count or your writing habit, and join a supportive community of writers who are available to celebrate your successes, vent your frustrations, and help you overcome roadblocks. GYWO also provides monthly challenges, prompts, discussions about writing, word wars, and more!

Our members include original writers, fan writers, published authors, and hobbyists. If you write, you’re welcome at GYWO.

In addition to [community profile] getyourwordsout, GYWO posts content on [twitter.com profile] gywo and [tumblr.com profile] gywo. We also have our own website for features not available on the other platforms.

Please read the membership requirements and our guidelines for more information. And then visit the DW community to make your pledge.

Sign-ups for 2020 are open through January 15, 2020.

Thank you, [personal profile] autobotscoutriella for allowing us to advertise here!

[admin post] Admin Post: Mod Changeover, Part 2

Sep. 1st, 2019 02:32 pm
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Hello, writers! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella here.

A big thanks again to [personal profile] darjeeling for all her hard work on this community, and I hope we'll see you around again someday!

I'm planning to put a voting post up for Challenge #21 sometime Monday evening, and will continue from there with the voting posts on Monday/winners post and new challenge on Wednesday schedule. That should give anyone who's interested time to get one more fic in before the deadline, and we'll get back to the regular weekly schedule at that point.

If you have ideas for prompts, please let me know! I have a list of ideas, but more are always welcome.

As most of you have probably noticed, I tend to write an entry for every challenge, and I'm planning to keep doing that, but I'm not entirely sure it's fair for my entries to be included in voting if I'm also moderating. Does anyone else have any thoughts/strong opinions on that? Right now, I'm thinking about just leaving mine out of the voting posts each week (possibly with an exception if we only had a couple entries), but I'm a bit new to this, so let me know what you guys think.

Thanks very much to all of you for your patience during the changeover!

Edit September 2: Per the discussion below, I'll be leaving my entries out of the voting posts (though I still plan to write fills for as many prompts as I can). Thank you!

[admin post] Admin Post: Mod Changeover

Aug. 31st, 2019 11:45 pm
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Hello writers!

Some big community news today: I'll be stepping down as moderator for this community. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to maintain the weekly schedule for FW postings. I'm sure you've all noticed my inconsistency with getting challenges, voting and results up on time and I really, sincerely want to thank everyone for being so patient with me while I tried to get things sorted out.

However, [personal profile] autobotscoutriella has graciously offered to step up and take on moderator duties for the community! Please treat her kindly and we'll have the switch over done as soon as we can.

Thank you again for participating in FandomWeekly and stay tuned!

- Li

Whoops!

Mar. 29th, 2019 04:35 pm
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I got busy and then suddenly it's Friday evening! Sorry for not having Challenge 11 up on time guys, let's take this week off so the challenge isn't too short, and we'll pick up for Wednesday, April 3 as normal.

If you want to keep posting Amnesty entries until then, consider this the official Amnesty extension.

Thanks for being patient!

- Li

[admin post] Admin Post: New Mod Journal

Jan. 29th, 2019 11:49 am
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Hello writers! Because of a glitch on Dreamwidth's side, I'm not getting any of my notifications to either my DW inbox or my email on my main account ([personal profile] darjeeling). If you've sent me any communications in the last week or two be it comments on posts etc, and I didn't respond, that's why. Sorry about that!

So going forward, all community postings will be done under this shiny new community mod account. That'll be Challenges, Voting, and Results posts, as well as answering any questions that may come up. I'll be changing the information on the various posts like the Mod Contact as well ASAP.

TLDR; New mod journal, same old modly Li.

Thanks everyone!

[admin post] Admin Post: AO3 Collection Update

Jan. 18th, 2019 08:35 am
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Hello writers! I have an announcement regarding our AO3 Collection for the community.

In keeping with our reboot and the new year, and just general tidiness, I decided to separate our AO3 into a new segment for 2019 under a parent collection. That means that we have a dedicated archive just for this year's entries, which will make your works easier to find (and easier for me to keep track of!)

To those who already submitted to the old archive, I apologize! Please resubmit them if you'd like to the new archive. You do not need to remove them from the old archive.

Remember that you can only submit new works AFTER the results post for that week has been posted - so you may currently submit your works from Challenges 001-002, but not yet for 003, for example.

Thank you for your cooperation, and happy writing!
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Happy New Year, writers! I hope you all have a happy and prosperous 2019!

It's just two more days until we post our first challenge for our official relaunch, and I hope you're all looking forward to it!

Share you writing goals for 2019?

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Thank you to those who've already volunteered to be BANNER MAKERS for this year. We're going to leave signups open for another day or so before we assign upcoming challenges to specific makers, so there's still time to put your name in. We're looking at getting to do them approximately once every 5 weeks, so less than once a month at this rate (easy, right?)

We've had some stellar suggstions on our themes post but we can always use more. If you liked a previous challenge, don't be afraid to suggest the theme again, there's always the opportunity for reusing it.

Want to share that you're planning to participate in FW this year? Share it on your journal with a promotional post so others can find the community as well!

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Countdown to January 2nd begins!
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Hey everyone! I'm thinking of getting this community going again with the recent surge of new users from Tumblr, so this is an official interest check for 2019.

We'd be looking at restarting challenges for Wednesday, January 2nd. We'd also need new bannermakers, and more interest in suggesting challenge topics.

Let me know with a comment, and if you have any suggestions, drop them here please!

- Li



EDITED:

Ohmigosh this is so much more interest than I expected! So it looks like we'll definitely be restarting the community with the first new challenge going up Wednesday, January 2.

• Which means that we're looking for signups for BANNER MAKERS, ideally 4-5 different people so that the frequency is only about once a month for people to need to do them. But more is always better!

• Additionally, head over to the SUGGEST A THEME post if any topics ping you for future prompts! (You can check out our past prompts for ideas about themes and bonus goals.)

• Finally, you can help promote the community by picking up one of our ADVERTISEMENTS and sharing it in your journals, or linking to the community
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Please note that we'll will be extending Challenge #46 through until NEXT Monday, October 23rd, not this coming Monday, to give everyone a chance to reset to the usual schedule. Following that, we will be returning to the regular weekly format. Our next Amnesty period will be following Challenge #50 and run for its normal two weeks.

Thank you!
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Thank you everyone for your patience, FW will be resuming posting this week!

Updates

May. 3rd, 2017 11:42 pm
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Based on the feedback from this discussion post, the majority preference seems to be with voting reminders, so I'm looking for someone to take on the responsibility of posting a voting reminder on Tuesday evenings.

I will also be revamping the wording in the FAQ regarding being able to vote for fics while being canon unfamiliar, and to clarify with examples the yes/no's of showing entries before the voting closes.

Secondly, as we didn't get any additional offers for full-time bannermakers, we will be discontinuing banners for the time being, but will open them again once people's schedules (including my own) lighten enough to generate more volunteers.

Challenge 40 will be posted shortly!
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While the comm is on mini-hiatus, we might as well use the time to seek out new life and new civi-- wait, that's not right. Where were we?

ACTUALLY, the community is looking for some additional bannermaker volunteers. No super fancy graphics talent required, it's just a really nice thing to be able to offer and people seem to like them :P

I'm hopeful that we have enough active members right now where we can get back up to 5-6 bannermakers in total (we are down to three), so that everyone would only have to make a set every month to month and a half... nice and easy, right?

If you're willing to help out, please drop me a note on this post here, or give a comment at this link, and it's very much appreciated. Thank you!
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Hello writers, I hope you're having a good April so far!

This is a quick announcement to let you all know that I'm putting a comm on a tiny two-week pause for a couple of reasons.

One, I'm in exams next week. Boo.

Two, although we've got a steady contingent of regular contributors, and we're getting new participants on a lot of challenges (YAY!), our voting turnout is... well, it needs some work. In a lot of weeks since the second amnesty round, we've been getting 10+ entries, but only 2-3 voters.

The voting aspect is an important part of how a challenge community functions; not just in regards to the actual points count and the finalists, but because it fosters the (friendly) competitive atmosphere that comms like this one operate on.

Obviously I don't want to make voting mandatory if you've submitted an entry, and I don't want people to throw in random votes just for the hell of it, so I'm opening the floor to suggestions on how we can get participation in this aspect of the community up to healthier levels.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Blanket disclaimer, when I'm replying to everyone's posts, I'm not shooting ideas down, I'm just bringing up points for expanding on for discussion :)

EDIT x2: Links and codes for advertising the comm in your journals can be found here!

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Challenges will resume on Wednesday, May 3rd on the regular schedule! I'm hoping two weeks will be enough to get some discussion going about this so we can implement any changes we may need.
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Hello writers! I hope 2017 brings you many happy things and good feelings, moreso than 2016 kind of a low bar, I admit, but let's go with it.

GOOD NEWS...

Weekly challenges will be resuming this Wednesday, January 4th with Challenge #27, and I'm going to have ~5 challenges written up ahead of time so I don't get so behind. (Also health things are like 75% conquered, so that will help too.)

To kick off the new year, I'm looking for a new group of BANNERMAKERS. If you were on the list previously, you'll need to re-volunteer, because I didn't want to assume and also because people's interests change. The frequency of how often you'll need to make them will depend on how many volunteers we get; if we get 5, you'll do one batch of three banners every 5 weeks, etc, so it's fairly low commitment.

And of course, the community restart is a perfect time to suggest some fresh THEMES AND BONUS GOALS for upcoming rounds, and having these suggestions is a big help for me ♥

I have a metric tonne of memories to catalogue since I, oops, kind of stopped doing that a while back. That's going to be somewhat of an ongoing process, please bear with me as I work my way through that backlog. If you have any questions or suggestions, please drop me a line here or on the mod contact page.

Looking forward to seeing this comm bursting with writing once again!

- Li
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Hi all, sorry for dropping off the earth again. I'm having some health issues, and I'm going to be going in for a few surgeries in the near future, so I'm holding off putting up any new challenges because I won't be around to actually post/follow up with them.

I should know more by the first of the month, including the scheduled dates, so I'll amend this post at that point.

Until then, I'm cool if you guys want to treat this like an extended Amnesty Week and post stuff in that format, at least until I have something more firm for making plans.

Thanks,
- Li
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So I should have posted this before I left, but I was away to a wedding the last 6 days, and so obviously things were not getting posted on time because wedding timelines eat people. So we're going to run the Amnesia challenge until Oct 10th, and remember you can submit up to 2 entries for each challenge!

Thanks all,
Li
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(If you also follow us on Plurk @ [plurk.com profile] fandomweekly apologies that you'll be seeing this notice twice!)

Hello writers! Due to some real life things, and a vacation in which I'm not going to have any internet access for a bit, the community is taking its own mini vacation for the next 2 weeks.

I'll be leaving the Amnesty Week Month?? running during this, so enjoy a bit of writing downtime and we'll be back to normal midmonth.

Challenges will resume Wednesday, August 17th.

Thank you for understanding!
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Hello writers! Just a quick note, I'm going to extend Amnesty #002 for another week, and going forward, I think the Amnesty Weeks should probably be 2-week stretches anyway, just because the number of available prompts to get caught up on will continue to grow.

Therefore, challenges will resume July 27th. Happy writing!
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Hello everyone!

Just a note that we'll be extending Challenge #015 - Patriotism for another week, to run through until Monday, June 6th at the usual ending time, 9PM EST. Remember that you can submit up to TWO entries per challenge.

Happy writing!
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