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sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









THE LONG WALK

3: June Ever Write



so what's this then this is where you get to do something about writing that novel you've always had inside you and can finally get all the money respect sex nothing you deserve.

sounds cool how does it work round about the first day of every month I put a thread up and you post in it to say how much new writing you're gonna post by 2359 PST on the last day of that month. there might be a little general leeway at the end of the month, but don't count on it and don't ask for extensions.

lol imma post one word 'lol' there I won lol there's a 4k word minimum. you can pledge more if you like, but 4k is the ante.

what happens if I gently caress it up every promise has to have a :toxx: attached. you fail, you get banned.

how should I post my stuff up to you, but a link to a gdoc with comments enabled is best that way you won't restrict your publication options later.

can I do short stories sure. It has to be new words (prose, poetry, limericks) but otherwise you can post whatever as long as you make the wordcount

can I critpost, shitpost, or shart my jorts don't really care, it's not the thunderdome so just follow the exhortations of your clotted goony heart but keep in mind that detailed crits of longform stuff aren't super useful; better to keep them general. normal CC rules apply so be harsh but helpful

is there an irc channel yes, if you've signed up: synirc, #longwalk

where are the previous weeks April, May

who tells the mods if i gently caress up and don't make it anyone can call in a failed toxx; right now it's likely to be me, we'll see how that works out (if someone else wants to take over this role I'll post it here)

who checks i've done it i could just not and say i did lol you need to satisfy me, which isn't a high bar tbh, but I'll probably need to see something, up to you what that is

how long are you gonna do it for at least a year, but if it's working for people there's no reason it couldn't go on longer

ock? that's not actually a word you mongoloid

Long Walk 3: June Ever Write

RedTonic: 10k YES HE IS DONE
docbeard: 10k SO GODDAM DONE
Jonked: 8k DONE LIKE U WOULDN'T BELIEEEEEEVE
Martello McSmello: 10k THIS GUY TOO IS DONE
Sundae: 35k WOW DONE EVEN SYSTRAN MIGHT BE IMPRESSED BY THE DONENESS OF THIS
Sitting Here: 2.5k/week, Monday 2359 PST (10k total) YES DONE YES YOU ARE THE SITTING HEREST SITTING HERE
Crabrock: 10k/wk, 50k total DONE LIKE A DOGS DINNER ASSUMING THAT DOG IS ALSO A PROLIFIC WRITER OF WELL-CRAFTED PROSE
Bad Seadoof: 20k DONE, YOU KNEW YOU COULD DO IT IN YOUR HEART
Schneider Heim: 4k DOOOOOOOOOOONE IN A SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED WAY
DocKlock: 40k (plus submit story, send novel to editor) :siren: FAILFAILFAIL :siren:
Thanguy: 8k DONE LIKE A TUN OF PUNS
Killfast37: 40k :siren: FAILFAILFAIL :siren:
painted bird: 20k :siren: FAILFAILFAIL :siren:
Capintastical: 7k DONE HURRAH
kurona_bright: 6k YAH DONE DON'T WORRY BOUT THE QUALITY C'S GET DEGREES
grizpat: 10k HE MAY BE OLD IN NICKNAME YEARS BUT HE'S YOUNG IN BEING DONE



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SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
I'm out this month because it's exams, but I will be editing the piece I've strung together in the last two months and I'll happily trade crits for crits.

painted bird
Oct 18, 2013

by Lowtax
I'm in. My toxx is 5k words every week (to be posted by every Sunday), for a total of 20k at the end of the month.

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painted bird fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 31, 2015

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Toxxing for 10k this month.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

What the hell, let's get a little more ambitious this time.

10K words, a minimum of half of which will be part of my horrible urban fantasy novel. (Once again, not counting T-dome stories here.)

Also, I'm gonna do an outline for said horrible urban fantasy novel, but that ain't part of the :toxx:

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
The goal is 8,000 words by the end of the month, with the subgoal of 2,000 words each week. Right now this WILL be including TDome stories.

I'm going to slowly ramp up the weekly/monthly word goals as we get closer to November.

6/8 Goal: 2088/2000 words
6/15 Goal: 3453/2000 words
6/22 Goal: 1187/2000 words
6/30 Goal: 825/2000 words

Monthly Goal: 7553/8000 words

Jonked fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jun 26, 2015

Martello
Apr 29, 2012

by XyloJW

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

I'm out this month because it's exams, but I will be editing the piece I've strung together in the last two months and I'll happily trade crits for crits.

ur ahn

also :toxx: for 10k words of the novel, going from 50k to 60k

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005
Count me in for 35,000 words in June. :toxx:

These will almost certainly be spread across multiple works, but proof of 35,000 words should be easy enough.

Sitting Here
Dec 31, 2007

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

I'm out this month because it's exams, but I will be editing the piece I've strung together in the last two months and I'll happily trade crits for crits.

:bigtran:

This month I'm going to break up my :toxx: a bit. Under pain of banning I will have:

2.5K novel words by Monday, June 8
5K novel words by Monday, June 15
7.5K novel words by Monday, June 22
10K novel words by Monday, June 29

Plus I will have my short story edited and out for submission by the end of the last day of the month.

crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

I

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50k words total,

at least 10k new words each week.

:toxx:

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
Link to the thing I've got so far. It's a mess right now; there's continuity errors all over the show and poo poo, because I wrote it over two months and didn't touch it for weeks at a time before knocking out 3k in a day sorta thing. Please do point them out as I just know I'm gonna miss some on my own.


Anybody who gives it a crit, I also owe crit/s of equivalent size. It's 8k, so if you crit the whole thing I owe you 4 2k crits or 2 4k crits or w/e.

SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jun 1, 2015

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
Gotta get back in the game.

20k minimum.

:toxx:

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)
Just 4k words. I have a comic book pitch and a short story or two to write for friends. :toxx:

Dr. Kloctopussy
Apr 22, 2003

"It's time....to DIE!"
Submit my Ice Zombie story to Clarkesworld by Friday June 5 :toxx:
Send the edited draft of my first angel romance to freelance editor by June 30 :toxx:
40k new words :toxx:

Thranguy
Apr 21, 2010


Deceitful and black-hearted, perhaps we are. But we would never go against the Code. Well, perhaps for good reasons. But mostly never.
In for an 8K :toxx:, not counting TD. Got to start writing closer to year-round.

Killfast37
May 7, 2007
In for 40k new words. I will finish my current novel that is at 36,273 words and start some new projects. :toxx:

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Capntastic
Jan 13, 2005

A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

I :toxx: myself thusly:

3.5k words by the 14th.
7k words by the 30th.

Ante upped from last month. Spread across various projects, since my tempo seems best when I hop around a bit.

Martello
Apr 29, 2012

by XyloJW
seb if next month's thread title doesn't include "Julyin to me" or something along those lines, i don't even know what to say to you

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Martello posted:

seb if next month's thread title doesn't include "Julyin to me" or something along those lines, i don't even know what to say to you

6k this month.

crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

I

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can u make a list of fallen heroes in the OP

or maybe just a star for each one.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









crabrock posted:

can u make a list of fallen heroes in the OP

or maybe just a star for each one.

Jonked
Feb 15, 2005
Started on my sketch draft, laid out the general plan of the first couple chapters in about 300 words. So far, so good.

Also making it double official that I'm in with a :toxx: in case I need to actually state that.

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005


I appear to be ahead of pace. And now to spend an entire weekend doing nothing before I start panicking and churn out a bazillion words again.

crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

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hey, you know it's wednesday, right?

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

crabrock posted:

hey, you know it's wednesday, right?

Yep. Vacation weekend while a bunch of friends come visit. Last thing I'm doing while guests and beer are in the same room is writing lovely romance novels. :v:

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
Please tell me this isn't just the erotica thread reborn.

kurona_bright
Mar 21, 2013
Okay, let's try this again! Aiming (slightly) higher with 6k words this month. :toxx:

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Please tell me this isn't just the erotica thread reborn.

Clearly, you need to write more so you can post updates and drown out all the sinful word counts with their curvy 8's and 0's.


Next up... two chapters from a different novel and then back to the first one again. Maybe a little writing tonight, but once people show up tomorrow morning, I must stop and be sociable/boozable.

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Hnngh I've been bad about procrastinating still, so I'm going to double my goal to 10k so I can't wait until the last week to start. :toxx:

Dr. Kloctopussy
Apr 22, 2003

"It's time....to DIE!"

Dr. Kloctopussy posted:

Submit my Ice Zombie story to Clarkesworld by Friday June 5 :toxx:

It's still Friday in Hawaii

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crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

I

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sebmojo posted:

Crabrock: 10k/wk

here's my first week (tomorrow is editing day)

Sitting Here
Dec 31, 2007
2.5K in week one. Not as impressive as the porno writers, but better than last month.

Capntastic
Jan 13, 2005

A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

June Halfway Checkin:

625 words from a small joke story thing for a friend's birthday.
3,110 words of a Thunderdome being rewritten from the ground up for sending out for submissions.

3,735 total. Still need to edit the Thunderdome thing back down a bit though, mainly for pacing reasons.

crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

I

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week 2 10k checkin:



month at 29k total

Sitting Here
Dec 31, 2007
lol so I had one 2K day this week, and because I'm a piece of poo poo I still only managed to just make my word goal for today. Anyway, 2.6K words, to make a grand total of just over 5K for the month.

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Dr. Kloctopussy posted:

It's still Friday in Hawaii



omg what happened?

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005
I've had to change gears on my writing (novels instead of shorts) lately due to recent royalty structure changes from Amazon, but I've almost reached my 35,000 word goal for the month. Should easily clear it.

quote:

omg what happened?

Agreed! Did you get accepted? :)

Dr. Kloctopussy
Apr 22, 2003

"It's time....to DIE!"

Sundae posted:

Agreed! Did you get accepted? :)

lol no, of course not

edit: going to give it another scrub and submit to a few more places in July. I will have a lot more time because I will be banned from the forums for failing my :toxx:

Dr. Kloctopussy fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 18, 2015

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
SUP, BITCHES

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crabrock
Aug 2, 2002

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week 3: 10,993 words, 40,311 total. see you at the end with my final 10k.

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