TwigWriSum

This is gonna be brief since I really gotta go. But basically, TwigWriSum shall start June 1st and go through to the end of August. Er, well, good luck everyone! ^^; Ari, are those widgets finalized yet . . . ? If so, could you post them here, and I'll edit them into this post for everyone to use?

When I come back, I'll do whatever else needs to be done. But that probably won't be until tomorrow . . . either way, please people, remind me about whatever I need to take care of as pertains to the whole site if you think of something. Prizes, widgets, anything we'll need. I'll be back as soon as I can.

Edit: Just wanted to add a bit more about what we're doing, in case anyone is still unclear.

Basically, we're each choosing our own goal - 20k, 50k, 100k, anything higher, or anything lower - and endeavoring to write that many words over the course of this entire event. Like NaNoWriMo, except with three times the insanity cus we're taking three times the time. And 1% of the planning time.

Prizes have not been arranged yet. We're considering TwigAdopts and special icons for all who meet their goals, with possibly extra prizes for each person who writes the most in their category, or the most stories, stuff like that, and maybe even a nice little treat for the whole site if we can get to 2 million words total. I'll be posting a discussion thread in the Nanowrimo section in a moment for people to keep track of themselves, and you can use widgets too when we get them up. In the meantime, have fun planning your stories (if you feel like it, cus I don't ), and prepare yourselves for the fun!

Another edit: Whee, we have the badges now! :3

Arianna wrote:Yayyy! I have to go to school, but here's how you use the badges:

Use the code:

Code:

[img]http://pixelpuppy.net/otherfiles/badge/?total=50000&sofar=25000&base=3[/img]

The 'total' number is your goal, and 'sofar' is, well, how many words you have so far! Also, you can choose from background 1, 2, or 3 (I'll be adding Cyn's later), so just go ahead and change that to your liking.

OOOOOH. Lemme ask my mom if I can stay up 'till midnight. Anyone else gonna?

Eh, I can't stay up late. I don't do good on 6 hours of sleep. But I'll start writing before class starts tomorrow. And if I get bored in history... or Spanish... or biology... And I know what I'm writing, so that's good for me.

My mother said yes- so I am.

SWEEET. Cyn, don't worry- I just want someone to, say, Word War with or something. As long as your on Twig, I'm good. (:

Eek, I don't know what to write. xD I guess I'll freewrite until I come up with an idea.

I spent like all day trying to find something to write, but I managed to remember something I've been wanting to write. And my family will actually want to read this, so they can give me advice.

My mom says I have to lie down for awhile till like 11, because I'm like the walking dead if I get less than 8 hours of rest, but I'll be there from 11-12!

Whoop! This is gunna be fun. I was brainstorming during wood shop, so I have a few ideas.

One hour! I can't wait! (:

I've never done this before, so I'm pretty new to whats going on. Just one question, I've asked the others, what is a wordwar?

I'm outlining right now-- this is exciting! :D

A wordwar is where you set a certain amount of time and try to write as many words as possible during that time and try to beat everyone else.

An hour and a half for me until it starts. *-* But, much to my surprise, I'm back online, probably staying up till midnight (if I don't totally pass out, since I'm tired already), and jumping into this with no clue of what I'm doing. I'm definitely gonna be enjoying myself. Anyway, I'm updating the front with a bit of extra info!

It's an hour and a half for me too, but I agreed to be up with a few others in the EST to get a heck of a lot of words in, so... xD

Twenty minutes to go! I will probably spend like five minutes writing and go straight to bed, I'm already practically dead to the world.

Oh, cool!! That shall be fun, I will think of some inspiration.

Oh, how do we know how many words we've written? Like do we have to count as we write?

Well, there's two options for you. The first is definitely preferred, where you do all your writing all the computer. Then you either keep it all in one word-processing document, or copy and paste it there later, and use the word counting feature that's built in to figure out your total so far.

Or, if you're writing by hand, you have to manually count the words. Which is . . . lots harder. And thus not advised, but entirely acceptable. And you can always just type the words onto the computer later on if you need to. ^^

Oh, okay! I thought it had to be written on the site first, my bad. Awesome, then I'll just type in word, I hope that has a built in counter. I'm using a rather old computer, because I haven't bought the other one yet.

I write every thing on the computer. Feels more natural, too me. Or maybe because I can kill my mistakes a loooooot faster.

Yeah, I can do both, but I prefer writing at school and typing and home. It's weird...... I like typing a bit more though, I like the neat letters when mine are everywhere.