2010 year-long word-count challenge

[cypher]

Pledge time!

Here's how this works:

Comment to this post, by the end of January, committing to one of the goal levels listed below. Then, keep track of how much you're writing over the course of the year, and try to make it to your goal by the end of December. If you want to, you can set a limit on what kind of writing counts (blogging, all fiction, only original fiction, etc.), but that's completely optional. At the end of each month, I'll put up a progress post where people can check in with how they're doing.

Tier 1: 50,000 words
Tier 2: 100,000 words
Tier 3: 150,000 words
Tier 4: 200,000 words
Tier 5: 250,000 words
Tier 6: 300,000 words

- Each tier represents 1,000 words per week, with two weeks off (200 words per day, with weekends off) -- those numbers should give you a decent guideline when you're trying to choose a comfortable goal level.

- There aren't any prizes, so you don't have anything to gain by shooting low -- pick a goal level that will be a challenge (but not a tremendously daunting one)!

- If you'd like to have a progress meter to post in the end-of-month posts, or keep in a sticky post on your journal, the basic one at writertopia is pretty easy to use and stable.

- You are welcome -- encouraged! -- to make posts in this community to share writing resources, strategies for longer projects, questions you have about doing research or getting past writer's block. We'd like this community to be a place where we can help each other out! So please don't hesitate to strike up conversation.

- On that note, please also feel free to point your writing friends over here -- the more the merrier!

Comments

[cypher]

I'll take a Tier 3 -- all fiction, probably a mix of original & fan. ^^

[crossfortune]

Tier 1.

[ivoryandhorn]

Tier 3, any kind of fiction, go!

[penny]

Tier 3, mixture of fan and original fiction. :D

[freezingrayne]

Tier 3, all fiction!

[sarashina]

Tier 3, original fiction and poetry with some fanfic mixed in! ♥

[royalarchivist]

Yeah, I'll sign up for Tier 3. 50k of fiction (and poetry?) and 100k of game design.

[schattenstern]

Tier 2, all fiction. ^.^

[roseargent]

Tier 1, all fiction.

It's only like seven times my output for 2009, ahahaha. But. Given that 2009's output was probably seven times my output for 2008, it might be doable. ... Shaky logic is shaky, but reassuring.

[explodingheads]

Tier 3: both original and fan fiction.

[nan]

Tier 3, all fiction, a mix of original and fan (let's face it - mostly fan). :D

[kitana]

I'm going to go for Tier 2, a mix of original and fanfic. ^_^ I feel confident!

[cephy]

Hmmm... Tier 4 would certainly be a challenge, but I think 3 is much more realistic. ^^; Tier 3 it is, then. All fiction, original and fan.

[influx]

Tier 2, all fiction.

[madame_parker]

I'll take Tier 1: mostly original fiction and a dash of fanfiction.

[lassarina]

Tier one, Every Light Casts A Shadow (my fanfic novel horrifying beast thing.) I'm tempted to aim for Tier 2, but I don't know if there's quite that much story left in the thing.

[augustphoenix]

Tier 1 for me, original fiction and gamefic. ^_^

[nonessential]

Tier 1 - creative blogging and original fiction

[ilyat]

Tier 1. All fiction/fictional reference.

[kunenk]

Tier 1- all fiction.

[puella_nerdii]

Tier 3, all fiction. Let's see how this goes.

[glasmalerei]

Oh wow... I just found this place. ^_^ Yay!

Let's go for broke - Tier 6, all fiction (and school essays x_x)

[watersword]

*deep breath* Tier 1.

30,000 words of original fiction
10,000 words of fanfic
30,000 words of scholarship

[starlady]

Tier 3.

At least 2/3 fiction, up to 1/3 scholarship.

[vangirl]

Tier 2; all fiction. That should be enough to provide a challenge while not being OMFG TOO MUCH.

[sofiaviolet]

Tier 4. Whee.