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Starting GYWO
Jan. 2nd, 2021 12:34 amYesterday (really today, because I haven't gone to bed yet) was the first day of Get Your Words Out. I spent some of the day doing other things, but most of it was split between writing, investigating the rules and parameters of GYWO, and checking out the Discord server.
I appreciate Discord for so many things, but one thing it does not do well is thread conversations, which makes it really hard to track what people are saying when there are more than three or four people in a channel at a time. I hope the mods will recognize this deficiency and support "couches," a freeform concept permitting time-limited conversations about writing. Even so, today I learned a couple of ways to summarize a character's role in a story, some tools on Scrivener I didn't know about yet, and some additional writing tools which I may or may not need.
I wish I had an original plot to work on that was as compelling as fanfiction, but at the same time I am kind of glad I don't.
I haven't done my end of 2020 writing summary post yet, but I'll get around to that eventually. This is a year of "when I'm ready"s. I'll just say it's been so fun making writing a community experience again, I haven't had time to miss writing any of my own stories.
I appreciate Discord for so many things, but one thing it does not do well is thread conversations, which makes it really hard to track what people are saying when there are more than three or four people in a channel at a time. I hope the mods will recognize this deficiency and support "couches," a freeform concept permitting time-limited conversations about writing. Even so, today I learned a couple of ways to summarize a character's role in a story, some tools on Scrivener I didn't know about yet, and some additional writing tools which I may or may not need.
I wish I had an original plot to work on that was as compelling as fanfiction, but at the same time I am kind of glad I don't.
I haven't done my end of 2020 writing summary post yet, but I'll get around to that eventually. This is a year of "when I'm ready"s. I'll just say it's been so fun making writing a community experience again, I haven't had time to miss writing any of my own stories.
