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getyourwordsoutAt the end of the year, it can be tempting to give up on your writing goals. But giving up is not the Get Your Words Out way! We believe in writing. We believe in trying. We believe that any progress is good progress. So even if your big writing goals are out of reach, you can still reach a goal.
Let's set that new goal today.
Join us for the Year-End Marathon. And this is a special party because we are inviting everyone!
Everyone—whether you're a current or previous GYWO member or have never even heard of this thing (is it a writing community? how do you pronounce "GYWO" anyway?)—EVERYONE is invited to join the 2024 GYWO writers in this marathon to the end of the year.
What Is the Year-End Marathon?
The Year-End Marathon begins Nov 1 and runs through Dec 31.
Make a pledge to write 15 Days each month (a total of 30 days) or 15,000 words each month (a total of 30K words).
Join other writers with the same goals on the GYWO Discord server in a set of channels exclusive to the YEM challenge where the moderators will be hosting special discussion topics and challenges for our YEM writers.
YEM writers will also have access to GYWO writing sprints hosted on our Discord.
If you're new to GYWO, this can be a way to see if this community is right for you before our pledge drive for 2025 begins. And if you're a GYWO 2024 writer, this can be a chance to seize your goals and put in some concentrated effort at the end of the year so you can start 2025 on the right foot.
What Are the Requirements?
🤝 Like writers who sign up for the year-long GYWO challenge, you must have an account on Dreamwidth or through OpenID. GYWO usernames are based on Dreamwidth or OpenID usernames. Writers signing up for the Year-End Marathon will not have full access to the GYWO Dreamwidth community at this time, but we hope you understand keeping our naming system consistent means the mod team doesn't have to sort duplicate usernames.
✍️ Write your words! The whole purpose of this challenge is to develop and maintain your writing life, so write something! All words and time counted toward your pledge progress must be your own work. Use of generative AI or passing off the work of a collaborator as your own is against the spirit of Get Your Words Out.
🌈 Be a rainbow, not a pain-bow. We would love for you to participate in our Discord community and basically ask that you not be a jerk when doing so. Disrespect of the community and its members, along with hate speech, harassment, abuse, and endangerment may result in your removal from the community. We're pretty chill and ask that you be chill, too. (Also, if you have a problem with a member or find a conversation veering into uncomfortable territory, alert a moderator and we'll be on it as quick as can be.)
A monthly check-in specific to the Year-End Marathon will be posted for your own accountability, but attendance will not be taken and it is not a required part of your membership.
(Current GYWO writers—you're still responsible to check-in as part of your GYWO 2024 membership. Attendance is taken there, not on the Year-End Marathon check-in, so make sure to check in as usual.)
How Do I Participate?
To participate in the Year-End Marathon, complete the Year-End Marathon Pledge Form and join the GYWO Discord server.
Once your pledge has been processed, a moderator will assign you a pledge role to give you access to the YEM exclusive area and writing sprints channel. Join other YEM writers to chat about the challenge, writing in general, and your writing life in particular.
Each week moderators will post either a discussion topic or a writing activity for YEM writers. You can respond directly to the moderator as a reply or join in the wider discussion with other writers, depending on your comfort level.
All moderator-led engagement is crafted to support a wide range of writers, so whether you're writing fiction, nonfiction, or poetry or you engage in horror, romance, absurdism, or fanfic we do our best to find something to support your writing life.
Have you picked your pledge for the Year-End Marathon?
Remember, your choices are 15 Days per month (30 days total) or 15,000 Words per month (30K words total).
Pledging for the GYWO Year-End Marathon Ends Nov 7, 2024.
Pledge for the Year-End Marathon
If you have any questions, we're happy to answer them!
For more information about Get Your Words Out, please visit our website. Pledging for 2025 will open around December 12.
Let's set that new goal today.
Join us for the Year-End Marathon. And this is a special party because we are inviting everyone!
Everyone—whether you're a current or previous GYWO member or have never even heard of this thing (is it a writing community? how do you pronounce "GYWO" anyway?)—EVERYONE is invited to join the 2024 GYWO writers in this marathon to the end of the year.
What Is the Year-End Marathon?
The Year-End Marathon begins Nov 1 and runs through Dec 31.
Make a pledge to write 15 Days each month (a total of 30 days) or 15,000 words each month (a total of 30K words).
Join other writers with the same goals on the GYWO Discord server in a set of channels exclusive to the YEM challenge where the moderators will be hosting special discussion topics and challenges for our YEM writers.
YEM writers will also have access to GYWO writing sprints hosted on our Discord.
If you're new to GYWO, this can be a way to see if this community is right for you before our pledge drive for 2025 begins. And if you're a GYWO 2024 writer, this can be a chance to seize your goals and put in some concentrated effort at the end of the year so you can start 2025 on the right foot.
What Are the Requirements?
🤝 Like writers who sign up for the year-long GYWO challenge, you must have an account on Dreamwidth or through OpenID. GYWO usernames are based on Dreamwidth or OpenID usernames. Writers signing up for the Year-End Marathon will not have full access to the GYWO Dreamwidth community at this time, but we hope you understand keeping our naming system consistent means the mod team doesn't have to sort duplicate usernames.
✍️ Write your words! The whole purpose of this challenge is to develop and maintain your writing life, so write something! All words and time counted toward your pledge progress must be your own work. Use of generative AI or passing off the work of a collaborator as your own is against the spirit of Get Your Words Out.
🌈 Be a rainbow, not a pain-bow. We would love for you to participate in our Discord community and basically ask that you not be a jerk when doing so. Disrespect of the community and its members, along with hate speech, harassment, abuse, and endangerment may result in your removal from the community. We're pretty chill and ask that you be chill, too. (Also, if you have a problem with a member or find a conversation veering into uncomfortable territory, alert a moderator and we'll be on it as quick as can be.)
A monthly check-in specific to the Year-End Marathon will be posted for your own accountability, but attendance will not be taken and it is not a required part of your membership.
(Current GYWO writers—you're still responsible to check-in as part of your GYWO 2024 membership. Attendance is taken there, not on the Year-End Marathon check-in, so make sure to check in as usual.)
How Do I Participate?
To participate in the Year-End Marathon, complete the Year-End Marathon Pledge Form and join the GYWO Discord server.
Once your pledge has been processed, a moderator will assign you a pledge role to give you access to the YEM exclusive area and writing sprints channel. Join other YEM writers to chat about the challenge, writing in general, and your writing life in particular.
Each week moderators will post either a discussion topic or a writing activity for YEM writers. You can respond directly to the moderator as a reply or join in the wider discussion with other writers, depending on your comfort level.
All moderator-led engagement is crafted to support a wide range of writers, so whether you're writing fiction, nonfiction, or poetry or you engage in horror, romance, absurdism, or fanfic we do our best to find something to support your writing life.
✅ To participate in the monthly check-in specific to the Year-End Marathon, you'll need to have access to the GYWO Discord server. The link to check in for the YEM challenge will only be posted on Discord.
Have you picked your pledge for the Year-End Marathon?
Remember, your choices are 15 Days per month (30 days total) or 15,000 Words per month (30K words total).
Pledging for the GYWO Year-End Marathon Ends Nov 7, 2024.
If you have any questions, we're happy to answer them!
For more information about Get Your Words Out, please visit our website. Pledging for 2025 will open around December 12.
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Date: 2024-10-18 04:13 pm (UTC)(Should the post be set to public?)
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Date: 2024-10-18 09:06 pm (UTC)As a member of the year-long GYWO challenge, you can also use the usual month's check-in post to leave a comment about your progress on YEM. (You'll also have access to more discussions and challenges as part of our usual membership on DW. What you're really missing out on is Em using a new event to test run some things for Discord.)
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Date: 2024-10-18 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-18 11:58 pm (UTC)For full transparency, the reason this event is being hosted on Discord and not Dreamwidth is so we can invite new members to the community without giving them full-member access. We can do that on Discord, but not on Dreamwidth.
Even so, anyone new signing up for YEM must provide a Dreamwidth account (because we want them to pledge for 2025, which of course includes DW access to the full GYWO experience.)
The reason we're not mirroring to Dreamwidth is mainly because our Dreamwidth moderators have their hands full with what is already available on the community—which is MUCH MORE than what will be offered in the YEM Discord area. The YEM Discord experience is very much meant to give non-members a taste of what the full community looks like.
But if you (or anyone else reading) would be willing to volunteer to make a post each month/week/whenever-you're-available that can act as a YEM-focused discussion or check-in, we would be very excited to restructure the plan and include YEM posts on Dreamwidth.
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Date: 2024-10-19 07:05 pm (UTC)It's good to have new members, yes. Whether that will transfer over to Dreamwidth participation, well. My experience with Discord is that people who use it tend to stick to that platform.
if you (or anyone else reading) would be willing to volunteer to make a post each month/week/whenever-you're-available that can act as a YEM-focused discussion or check-in, we would be very excited to restructure the plan and include YEM posts on Dreamwidth
I can't actually promise anything because Reasons, but feel free to PM me to discuss this.
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Date: 2024-10-21 01:46 am (UTC)If you feel like you need the extra support of the Year-End Marathon to have a 15 Day or 15K goal, please sign up even if you can't participate on Discord. It's GYWO, and our DW posts throughout the month always have space for people to talk about their challenges and successes. Or you can always post as an individual to talk about your progress and seek support from other writers.
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Date: 2024-10-21 07:32 am (UTC)I understand why you decided to make this event Discord-only, but I think that you folks did not consider that the platform may not be usable for everyone. I have perceptual issues with its media lag and keeping up with real-time chats. Believe me, I'm not happy about it because the word sprints are Discord-only and I used to find those really helpful when I participated in them.
I don't see the sense of signing up for an event where I cannot participate as intended. Yes I do need the support. No I do not want to impose myself on unrelated DW posts. You folks decided not to make a space for it on DW because you're all too busy and that's understandable--but I feel like I won't really be welcome if I did talk about it here instead of Discord, so I'm not signing up.