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getyourwordsoutIn 2012 we are offering five pledges so that we can provide varying levels of difficulty for members. That doesn't mean that any of these challenges are easy, though! Even our smallest word count goals require a serious commitment throughout the year. Before choosing your pledge, please take note of the few requirements we have of our members, and carefully consider which of the five pledges you'd like to choose. Once the year starts, you will be locked into the pledge and we will not permit changing (either to increase or decrease the goal).
Membership Requirements
Given that this is a year-long challenge, we expect members to be writing throughout the year. While obviously some months will be better than others, and life can toss roadblocks into writing plans, we are here to encourage finding every spare moment to write something despite these distractions.
As such, we have 2 participation requirements.
The YTD totals will be used by the moderators to determine trends in the group and help gauge when additional encouragement may be needed. We will also keep a running total of all members' word counts in a spreadsheet available only for members' viewing. This will be useful when technology rebels or when scraps of paper walk away and a recorded count is lost.
If you know that you will be unavailable during the time frame for an upcoming check-in, you can request to be excused through our website. If you do not check in for a month, that will be noted; three months in a row without checking in will result in your removal from the community.
We strongly suggest that you enable PMs on the account you use to join the community. Any reminders from the moderators to members is conducted using LJ’s Private Message system. We promise not to abuse your LJ Inbox, and if you keep up with member participation, you may never have to hear from us that way. If your PMs are not enabled, you are agreeing that you will be responsible to keep up your participation requirement and check-in each month without a reminder.
Other community information, including answers to questions you may have, is available on our external website. These include:
Guidelines—membership changes and member conduct
Countable Words—a guide to what words count (a pressing question for most members)
Monthly Check-ins—a preview of the check-in procedure
On-Topic Posting—some examples and guidelines for member posting
After reading these, please let us know in this post if you have any additional questions you need answered before making your pledge.
Pledge Level Options
Members who pledge for 2012 are permitted to use any number of writing projects to add to their word count over the year. Projects may include (among other things) fanfics, poems, songs, essays, and short stories. You can find a guideline of what kinds of projects we count at our website.
There are five word count goals:
-- 150K words, the Modest level, which works out to approximately 12.5K words/month
-- 200K words, the Basic level, which works out to approximately 16.7K words/month
-- 250K words, the Moderate level, which works out to approximately 20.8K words/month
-- 300K words, the Difficult level, which works out to approximately 25.0K words/month
-- 350K words, the Insane level, which works out to approximately 29.1K words/month
When choosing your pledge goal, make sure to keep in mind your personal writing habits and what you find most motivating. Will hitting your goal early help propel you to keep writing through the year? Do you need a major challenge to keep you on pace? Make sure the pledge you make is one that will motivate you.
Making Your Pledge
Once you have decided on a pledge, there are two steps to complete.
Step 1 Follow the link for your pledge to the appropriate post and leave a comment using the journal you intend to have join the community. (You may use a fic/writing journal instead of your personal one, however to ensure our counts are accurate, we do not allow people to join with more than one journal. You are also welcome to use an OpenID account from another journaling service, such as Dreamwidth, if you do not have a Livejournal account.)
Step 2 Once you have made your pledge, please request to join the community. We won't approve memberships until later in December (as we still have the 2011 members scrambling to hit their goals!), but we'll hold you in the queue.
Some members may need to take one more step:
Step 3 Before approving your membership request we will stop by to make sure your journal is not a bot or a troll—so if your journal is f-locked with little information in your userinfo, you may want to send us a PM to confirm your identity and tell us about your writing goals. Additionally, if you have participated in previous years and are signing up with a different journal, please let us know the previous name you used so we can track our repeat customers.
You have until the end of 2011 to make your pledge. After that time you will NOT be able to change your pledge, so think carefully before committing.
All comments on the pledge posts are screened, however, once pledging is over and the year has begun, your pledge will be made public on the userinfo page of the community and you’ll find out who else has signed up in your pledge level.
IMPORTANT: Anyone requesting to join the community who has not made a pledge will not be added. To ensure you are not left out, make your pledge first, then request to join.
If you have any questions about the pledges or sign-ups, please ask them in this post; the only comments in the pledge posts should be for signing up for a pledge.
Promotion
If you want to share GYWO with your friends, please feel free to use the code provided to let them know you’ll be writing a lot of words in 2012 and you think they should too.
GetYourWordsOut: Back for a 4th Year!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net
Hopefully that covers everything you need to know about what is required of members, what our pledge options are, and how to make your pledge. Questions are welcome in this post; we recommend you read the comments to see if your question has already been answered. We hope to see your pledge soon!
Mirrored from Livejournal. All members must pledge and sign up at the Livejournal, though we will be utilizing Dreamwidth throughout the year as well.
Membership Requirements
Given that this is a year-long challenge, we expect members to be writing throughout the year. While obviously some months will be better than others, and life can toss roadblocks into writing plans, we are here to encourage finding every spare moment to write something despite these distractions.
As such, we have 2 participation requirements.
- All members must participate in the monthly check-ins. Each month members provide their current year-to-date (YTD) totals to the moderators. You will only ever be required to provide numbers; sharing what is written is completely optional.
- At the March check-in, members must have written some number of words for their goal.
The YTD totals will be used by the moderators to determine trends in the group and help gauge when additional encouragement may be needed. We will also keep a running total of all members' word counts in a spreadsheet available only for members' viewing. This will be useful when technology rebels or when scraps of paper walk away and a recorded count is lost.
If you know that you will be unavailable during the time frame for an upcoming check-in, you can request to be excused through our website. If you do not check in for a month, that will be noted; three months in a row without checking in will result in your removal from the community.
We strongly suggest that you enable PMs on the account you use to join the community. Any reminders from the moderators to members is conducted using LJ’s Private Message system. We promise not to abuse your LJ Inbox, and if you keep up with member participation, you may never have to hear from us that way. If your PMs are not enabled, you are agreeing that you will be responsible to keep up your participation requirement and check-in each month without a reminder.
Other community information, including answers to questions you may have, is available on our external website. These include:
Guidelines—membership changes and member conduct
Countable Words—a guide to what words count (a pressing question for most members)
Monthly Check-ins—a preview of the check-in procedure
On-Topic Posting—some examples and guidelines for member posting
After reading these, please let us know in this post if you have any additional questions you need answered before making your pledge.
Pledge Level Options
Members who pledge for 2012 are permitted to use any number of writing projects to add to their word count over the year. Projects may include (among other things) fanfics, poems, songs, essays, and short stories. You can find a guideline of what kinds of projects we count at our website.
There are five word count goals:
-- 150K words, the Modest level, which works out to approximately 12.5K words/month
-- 200K words, the Basic level, which works out to approximately 16.7K words/month
-- 250K words, the Moderate level, which works out to approximately 20.8K words/month
-- 300K words, the Difficult level, which works out to approximately 25.0K words/month
-- 350K words, the Insane level, which works out to approximately 29.1K words/month
When choosing your pledge goal, make sure to keep in mind your personal writing habits and what you find most motivating. Will hitting your goal early help propel you to keep writing through the year? Do you need a major challenge to keep you on pace? Make sure the pledge you make is one that will motivate you.
Making Your Pledge
Once you have decided on a pledge, there are two steps to complete.
Step 1 Follow the link for your pledge to the appropriate post and leave a comment using the journal you intend to have join the community. (You may use a fic/writing journal instead of your personal one, however to ensure our counts are accurate, we do not allow people to join with more than one journal. You are also welcome to use an OpenID account from another journaling service, such as Dreamwidth, if you do not have a Livejournal account.)
Step 2 Once you have made your pledge, please request to join the community. We won't approve memberships until later in December (as we still have the 2011 members scrambling to hit their goals!), but we'll hold you in the queue.
Some members may need to take one more step:
Step 3 Before approving your membership request we will stop by to make sure your journal is not a bot or a troll—so if your journal is f-locked with little information in your userinfo, you may want to send us a PM to confirm your identity and tell us about your writing goals. Additionally, if you have participated in previous years and are signing up with a different journal, please let us know the previous name you used so we can track our repeat customers.
You have until the end of 2011 to make your pledge. After that time you will NOT be able to change your pledge, so think carefully before committing.
All comments on the pledge posts are screened, however, once pledging is over and the year has begun, your pledge will be made public on the userinfo page of the community and you’ll find out who else has signed up in your pledge level.
IMPORTANT: Anyone requesting to join the community who has not made a pledge will not be added. To ensure you are not left out, make your pledge first, then request to join.
If you have any questions about the pledges or sign-ups, please ask them in this post; the only comments in the pledge posts should be for signing up for a pledge.
Promotion
If you want to share GYWO with your friends, please feel free to use the code provided to let them know you’ll be writing a lot of words in 2012 and you think they should too.
GetYourWordsOut: Back for a 4th Year!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net
Hopefully that covers everything you need to know about what is required of members, what our pledge options are, and how to make your pledge. Questions are welcome in this post; we recommend you read the comments to see if your question has already been answered. We hope to see your pledge soon!
Mirrored from Livejournal. All members must pledge and sign up at the Livejournal, though we will be utilizing Dreamwidth throughout the year as well.
