Monday, January 10, 2011

Joining the challenge.

To join the challenge, email your list to us at ffnewyearschanllenge@gmail.com.

The basics on the contest are as follows:

  • Sign up by January 10, 2011
  • The challenge starts January 11, 2011
  • The challenge ends March 20, 2011
  • Submit your list of challenge goals (the stories you will work on, see sample list).
  • Join our group, where you'll record your progress on our spreadsheet,  can give and receive advice and support, and frolic with other challenge players.
  • Write!
  • Winners in various categories (highest word count, most goals met, etc.) will receive pretty banners highlighting their accomplishments. 
There's not much more, but details can be found here.

Monday, January 3, 2011

The Google Group Page

Here is the google group's page...join here and then submit your list via email or by replying to the thread on how to sign up.

Sorry for the confusion.

http://groups.google.com/group/ffNYChallenge

Saturday, January 1, 2011

How to Join the Challenge!

Hello everyone!

To sign up for the challenge, you can either email the challenge
group, or reply to this thread on the google group. What is needed
is your penname and links to your various profiles as well as a list
with all of your WIP's and bunnies and the last completed chapter
or, if a new idea that hasn't been started yet, then just write
'new idea.' If the idea has chapters written, but not yet posted, still
give us the chapter number you last completed and we will list it as
not yet posted.

All future chapters for not yet posted stories do not have to be
posted to be counted, but a gdoc of the chapter must be sent to us.
If you have any stories that fall under that category, we will give
you the information on who to share the document with at that time so
that only challenge admins will be able to see it.

Once we receive it, it will be added to the challenge spreadsheet and
you will be added as a contributor. This is something you need a
gmail account for, its easier for you to make the changes to your
personal info, then for us to have to go through and make the changes
to each person participating. Your progress should be entered by the
first day of the next week, so that we are able to verify it. You may
enter it as you complete chapters, or once at the end of each week,
whichever is easier for you, but for it to count for a particular
week, it must either be posted or a gdoc sent to us by the weeks end.
If you use a beta or a service like PTB that takes a while to get
chapters back to post, you may also submit a gdoc to have it counted
to that weeks total.

If you have any questions, please contact us via the google group!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Challenge

If you're anything like us, you have a plot bunny list as long as a vampire's, ahem, appendage. A new year is around the corner, and while many of you will be resolving to lose weight, quit smoking, or tweet less, we'll be resolving to get our lists of Works In Progress and Plot Bunnies under control.

Details to follow!