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12in2010Welcome to 12in2010, an idea shamelessly stolen from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
12in2008. (Thanks, 12in2008, and also, 2008 in general -- we wouldn't be here without you!)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to set a goal, and write 12 stories that fulfill that goal over the course of the year. The thought, of course, is to do one a month -- but you can do several in one month and none in several months, if that's how your muses like to play it.
To set your goal, post a comment in response to this post right here, the one you're reading. To back out of a goal, either reply to your comment or delete your comment -- no harm, no foul (no deposit, no return). (But don't PM or email the mod(s) about this, because we are not your goalkeepers -- you are!)
Your goal can be anything you want. You can make it about word count (anything from a drabble to a novel -- if you think you can do 12 of them in 2010, go for it!), or about genre (12 angst stories, 12 hurt/comfort stories, 12 humor stories?), or about characters (12 stories centering around characters of color, 12 stories centering around transgendered characters, 12 stories centering around women). You can write about events (12 stories about weddings!), or specific events (12 stories about a particular wedding!), or current events (12 stories about marriage equality!), or world events.
If you can think of the goal, it can be your goal. You want to write 12 crossovers that prominently feature characters of color going snowboarding? GO FOR IT (please!). It's up to you!
More information is available in the profile, but we also invite you to ask questions in the question post!
Signups are open until 12/31/2010! If you find us late in the year, no problem -- just go ahead and sign up, and see what you can do!
12in2010, an idea shamelessly stolen from 12in2008. (Thanks, 12in2008, and also, 2008 in general -- we wouldn't be here without you!)Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to set a goal, and write 12 stories that fulfill that goal over the course of the year. The thought, of course, is to do one a month -- but you can do several in one month and none in several months, if that's how your muses like to play it.
To set your goal, post a comment in response to this post right here, the one you're reading. To back out of a goal, either reply to your comment or delete your comment -- no harm, no foul (no deposit, no return). (But don't PM or email the mod(s) about this, because we are not your goalkeepers -- you are!)
Your goal can be anything you want. You can make it about word count (anything from a drabble to a novel -- if you think you can do 12 of them in 2010, go for it!), or about genre (12 angst stories, 12 hurt/comfort stories, 12 humor stories?), or about characters (12 stories centering around characters of color, 12 stories centering around transgendered characters, 12 stories centering around women). You can write about events (12 stories about weddings!), or specific events (12 stories about a particular wedding!), or current events (12 stories about marriage equality!), or world events.
If you can think of the goal, it can be your goal. You want to write 12 crossovers that prominently feature characters of color going snowboarding? GO FOR IT (please!). It's up to you!
More information is available in the profile, but we also invite you to ask questions in the question post!
Signups are open until 12/31/2010! If you find us late in the year, no problem -- just go ahead and sign up, and see what you can do!
Goooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll
Date: 2010-01-04 04:43 am (UTC)Bonus points if: these 12 stories somehow involve kink. \o/ \o/
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Date: 2010-01-04 06:19 am (UTC)It would be nice if they were over 1000 words each, but if all I can manage one month is a drabble, then that's good enough for me. It's better than what I wrote last year!
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Date: 2010-01-04 06:32 am (UTC)Bonus points if I can write 12 Weir/Caldwell stories!
Well better late than never
Date: 2010-01-04 07:43 am (UTC)Bonus points if they're longer than 500,000 words each.
Re: Well better late than never
Date: 2010-01-05 09:18 am (UTC)Re: Well better late than never
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Date: 2010-01-04 07:45 am (UTC)I need to break through that barrier that stops me writing!
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Date: 2010-01-04 09:16 pm (UTC)Bonus points if they're over 1000 words.
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Date: 2010-01-04 09:19 pm (UTC)Bonus points if: the stories feature characters of color.
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Date: 2010-01-04 11:14 pm (UTC)Bonus Points if: They pass the bechdel test.
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Date: 2010-01-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-04 11:23 pm (UTC)Bonus points if: my total wordcount is at least 35,000 words.
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Date: 2010-01-04 11:55 pm (UTC)Per month:
My main goal: 1 5000+ word story, finished contained within my original universe, Universe Lost.
My secondary goal: 1 5000+ word original story, finished, contained within a different original universe. I, er, have several.
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Date: 2010-01-05 03:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-05 07:13 am (UTC)Goal 2: 12 new stories, bonus points for having them feature characters of color and/or women. (I'm going for at least half)
(any length of fic counts)
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Date: 2010-01-05 09:17 am (UTC)Something, anything, in the creative writing line, every calendar month. Even if it's just a paragraph that begins with "The one where..."
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Date: 2010-01-05 12:04 pm (UTC)My goal: finish 12 unfinished fics. I have so many started that it would be good to finish them off during this year!
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Date: 2010-01-05 06:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-01-05 08:39 pm (UTC)My bonus goal: Fill out at least 12 of the terribly empty slots on my prompt tables.
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Date: 2010-01-06 03:40 am (UTC)Bonus points if I manage to link some of them together given the sheer randomness of mixing characters and actors and 'verses, oh my!
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Date: 2010-01-06 06:15 pm (UTC)Bonus points if: at least two but no more than six of these stories are in small (Yuletide-eligible), chromatic source fandoms.