Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Day One

Awesome wordcounts everyone! KEEP GOING!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!


MONDAY'S SCORES

ab7- ?

AnneShirley06- ?

bythebrooks-

devynburton- |

Genevieve_Thurs-

Kaye723- |

kperry- |

kreativrytr- |

miss_ashleyc- |

runforamsterdam- ||

summer3r- |

supernovakgirl- |

ukulele17- |



MONDAY'S WORDCOUNTS

ab7
Goal - 500 words
Monday- ????

AnneShirley06
Goal- 1200 words
Monday- ????

bythebrooks
Goal- 1002
Monday- 878

devynburton
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 1059

Genevieve_Thurs
Goal- 700 words
Monday- 648

Kaye723
Goal- 1000
Monday- 1746

kperry
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 1200

kreativrytr
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 1566

miss_ashleyc
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 1878

runforamsterdam
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 2268

summer3r
Goal- 1500 words
Monday- 1532

supernovakgirl
Goal- 1000 words
Monday- 1013

ukulele17
Goal- 800 words
Monday- 1105

Monday, June 29, 2009

Participant List w/ Weekly Goals

Hi everyone! Here are the goals everyone will be shooting for each day this week! GO GO GO GO!!!!

ab7
Goal - 500 words

AnneShirley06

Goal- 1200 words

bythebrooks
Goal- ????

devynburton
Goal- 1000 words

Genevieve_Thurs
Goal- 700 words

kperry
Goal- 1000 words

kreativrytr
Goal- 1000 words

miss_ashleyc
Goal- 1000 words

runforamsterdam
Goal- 1000 words

summer3r
Goal- 1500 words

supernovakgirl
Goal- 1000 words


If I left anyone out, please @reply to DFTBAuthors on Twitter saying YOU LEFT ME OUT! Also, let us know your word count goal. THANKS!!!! HAPPY WRITING!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Instructions for Participating in the FIRST EVER DFTBAuthors Writing Challenge

Follow DFTBAuthors on Twitter. Then @reply to DFTBAuthors by 11:59 p.m. on June 28, 2009, saying you want to be in the challenge and what your daily wordcount goal is.

Every night at midnight (or earlier if you want), local time, tweet @DFTBAuthors with your daily wordcount goal and that day's wordcount. So if your daily goal is 1000 words, and on Monday you wrote 1300 words, your tweet would look something like this: "@DFTBAuthors Goal: 1000, Monday: 1300."

For every day that you meet that goal, you get a point. For every day that you double your goal, you get an extra point. If you triple your goal, you get three points, and so on. As long as you @reply with your daily scores, we'll update them to DFTBAuthors.blogspot.com every day so that everyone can see how everyone else is doing! You can cheer each other on, challenge each other, etc.

Obviously, this will all be solely on the honor system. We aren't going to verify wordcounts or anything. This is a just-for-fun way to get a few people together and write like insane people for a week. :)


Tips for Wordcount Goal Setting: Pick a daily wordcount goal that you think is reasonably attainable but maybe just a little bit more than you might normally do. This will give you enough of a challenge without making you want to tear your hair out every day.

Let us know if you have any other ideas! And feel free to take this and run with it. Start your own mini-challenges or whatever you think will help you get writing. If you want to do page counts instead of wordcounts, that's fine too. Whatever! Just let us know by @replying so that we can post your daily tally.

If this works, there's a chance we'll do it again. Maybe again this month, or maybe we'll work out something regular, like the first week of every month. WHO KNOWS?

- Chelsea & Rebecca