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THE LONG WALK 11: Winter Sun Walking  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 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. how many terrible words have been written through this thread and the ones before it? 1,608,000. Some of them might have been good? idk what happens if I gently caress it up every promise has to have a  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, but most of us hang out in #thunderdome where are the previous months April, May June July, August, September, October , November, December, January who tells the mods if i gently caress up and don't make it anyone can call in a failed toxx; if no one else does it I do 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 hickory dickory ock mice are fluffy vermin and deserve whatever they get Long Walk 11: Winter Sun Walking flerpenheim 15k, 5 subs NAMECHANGINGLY FLERPED IT grizzpat 5k 20 subs SUBBING IT LIKE A SUBEDITOR EATING A SUB INSIDE A SUBMARINE redtonic 20k MADE IT LIKE A GRANDMA MAKING A DOILY OUT OF BROKEN DREAMS AND DRYER LINT thyrork 4k SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED ACTUALLY poo poo I DUNNO THEY MAY BE SUPER UGLY BUT HEY MADE IT ironic twist 10k 5 subs MADE IT LIKE A GRENADE PIT sitting here 18k  FAILBURGERS DELICIOUS JUICY BURGERS MADE OF FAILguinness13 10k MADE IT LIKE A DWARVEN ARTISAN MAKING SOMETHING MEDIUM SIZED toxicslurpee 10k MADE ITTTTT GO TOXIC SLURPEE NO THANKS IM OK IM ACTUALLY NOT THIRSTY potatocubed 6k FIRST TIME MADE IT WOOOOO GO 1ST TIME MADE IT GUY/GAL spectres of autism 12k ALSO WITH THE FAILING AND THE BURGERSRECORD OF THE FALLEN  CHTHONIC BELL/A PAINTED BIRD... DIDN'T MAKE IT (X4) KILLFAST37... DIDN'T MAKE IT (X2) MORNING BELL... DIDN'T MAKE IT DR KLOCTOPUSSY... DIDN'T MAKE IT BOMPACHO... DIDN'T MAKE IT CRABROCK... DIDN'T MAKE IT REDTONIC... DIDN'T MAKE IT MARTELLO... DIDN'T MAKE IT THEHOMEMASTER... DIDN'T MAKE IT JONKED... DIDN'T MAKE IT ANIME WAS RIGHT... DIDN'T MAKE IT MAG7.... DIDN'T MAKE IT KURONA BRIGHT...DIDN'T MAKE IT SITTING HERE.... DIDN'T MAKE IT IRONIC TWIST.... DIDN'T MAKE IT TEQUILAJESUS.... DIDN'T MAKE IT ANOMIEATTHEGATES.... DIDN'T MAKE IT ANGELOPPORTUNITY.... DIDN'T MAKE IT sebmojo fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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15k words since I'm trying to do 500 words a day this month also 5 subs
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Feb 2, 2016 23:07
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Once more unto the breach with 5k non-TDome words and 20 subs.
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Feb 2, 2016 23:23
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Gonna stick with a conservative 20k this month and hope to surprise myself. I got a poo poo load of revising to do.
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Feb 2, 2016 23:43
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4k story words. XCOM 2 & a trip to London this month be damned. E:
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Feb 2, 2016 23:45
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for 10K, 5 subs.
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Feb 3, 2016 00:17
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18K again  (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 3, 2016 00:57
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Another 10K on the novel this month. The end is...well, not nigh, but somewhere on the horizon.
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Feb 3, 2016 05:06
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for at least 10,000 words of blog posts, fantasy stories, and/or science fiction. That's total, not each. No more writing things, deciding it's awful, and then deleting it. It's time to write something, decide it's awful, and post it anyway.
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Feb 3, 2016 05:44
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This sounds like my jam. I'll lowball the goal since it's my first go: 6000 words of fiction or RPG writing.
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Feb 3, 2016 10:52
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id like to winter sun walk for 12 k
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Feb 3, 2016 20:03
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  more than 15k, but i dont feel like mathing words done, subs not finished yet but im gonna use the rest of the month to edit something into something decent to send out.
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Feb 26, 2016 02:47
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Report in peeps, how yis doing
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Feb 26, 2016 02:55
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XCOM 2, travelling and sickness because of traveling has left me scrambling to get done in this last week. I'll get there, its not that many words. 
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Feb 26, 2016 03:07
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Lowballing worked out well for me. Plus a few thousand words on other works in progress, none of which are ever going to go anywhere.
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Feb 26, 2016 11:13
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Got like half of the revision work I wanted to do in Feb done. Will have the new words done.  e:  Got two of three revisions I wanted to do for Feb done. Not bad, project-wise, but I needed to get way more done in February. POOL IS CLOSED fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 11:48
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 What a lovely month, but any words is progress. Lets hope for better to come.
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Feb 27, 2016 18:29
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subs:  
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Feb 28, 2016 09:48
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Well I managed to write 10K words. Woohoo! It strikes me as awful writing but everything I write does for whatever bizarre reason. I feel like I should post some of it so people can tell me if it's actually legitimately bad or not. I always got stellar grades on everything I wrote for college so perhaps I'm just being too hard on myself. Oh well! My goal was to light a fire under my own rear end to actually get some writing done and I succeeded in that. What I was working on was a weird science-fiction idea I had a few years ago but never worked with. It's ultimately about the lives of a race of intelligent aliens that are incapable of communicating with each other.
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Feb 29, 2016 20:50
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 + 2,725 TD words = >10K words. Also, 
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This month was a slog. Too much BS going on, and it completely killed my momentum. Progress on the novel was minimal. I started the month at 59,183 and I finished with 62,422, for a total of 3,239 new words.  Started a new short story (or at least, restarted it since I wrote a draft last year), for 5,133 words.  Then the last two weeks of Thunderdome: 999 words  and 1,361 words  for a grand total of 10,732 words. Not as tight as I thought it would be, but eh. Here's hoping for a better March.
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5k words + 20 subs, done and done: Seb asked me in IRC to mention how all this submitting has worked out for me. I've been doing the Long Walk since the beginning, though I didn't start really getting serious about sending out submissions until about 3 months ago. So far, I've sent out 107 submissions. Of those, 20 are pending. A few never responded, and I'm expecting one or two more places that probably won't ever get back to me. But 9 of those submissions have been accepted for publication, which puts me at right about a 13% acceptance rate. I haven't been writing for very long, and when I first started, getting published literally anywhere was a distant dream. These Long Walk threads, and the people in them, really are a major inspiration. I never would have put the work in or tried to get any of it out there without you guys, so I just wanted to express my appreciation and hopefully encourage more people to send out stories for publication. It's a little scary and weird at first, but you get used to it fast. You can make a Submittable account in like 2 minutes, and that's all you need to send things out to 90% of the journals I've come across. It's super easy, and all of the crushing disappointment that comes with rejection is nothing compared to how you'll feel when you see that first shiny acceptance. There are already quite a few people here that have gotten things accepted (hopefully they mention it here!) and I really love seeing more goons get published. So if you've got a story you like that you're just sitting on, get it out there! If you stick with it, you are probably going to be pleasantly surprised. Grizzled Patriarch fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:There are already quite a few people here that have gotten things accepted (hopefully they mention it here!) and I really love seeing more goons get published. So if you've got a story you like that you're just sitting on, get it out there! If you stick with it, you are probably going to be pleasantly surprised. That was nice to read, I was wondering what the next step will be post-having something worth submitting was going to be like. Thanks.Wheres the thread Seb? Fast Threading, Good Threading.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:32
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:5k words + 20 subs, done and done: I can vouch for this, considering I've had a bunch of stories published under the impetus of this thread. One of the LW subs I sent out last night has already been accepted. Always Be Submitting.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:03
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Honestly, the LW kept me writing the last couple months. Life's been kicking my rear end lately, but having a set goal to work towards, even if I'm just barely reaching it, has helped a lot. Now I just need to get the quality out of the toilet.
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Thyrork posted:That was nice to read, I was wondering what the next step will be post-having something worth submitting was going to be like. Well done my little chickadees. Particularly Grizpat, but everyone. Follow his example - toxx to submit, next thread. Thread up in an hour or two.
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