Stuff from the Email

As the subject clearly states... I challenge you to join this event, one I and I alone will be hosting. (dun dun dun du-u-u-u-un )

GrOfFriNoWriYea!

No. I did not copy NaNoWriMo.... Okay, maybe just a little.
Now that we have mastered, flunked, or at least heard about, NaNoWriMo, we will take an even more desperate leap into the abyss we know as ... Insanity. (Also known as 'group of freinds novel writing year' yes. That is what GrOfFriNoWriYea stands for. No, that was not what I was originally going to call it, but I decided agains NaNoWriYea, for National Novel Writing Year, but technically... it is not national. No. I don't care if you don't like the name, I cam up with the idea! Okay, okay, can we move on? STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!!)

Yes, That is correct. I am challenging you to write ONE MILLION WORDS This very year. 2012. (Definitely) no more, (hopefully) no less.

Now, I don't want any excuses. No, "I'll be to busy' or 'I don't think I can' or 'I'll DIE!"s.

Got it?

Those are horrible excuses! Horrible! Yes, you may not have enough time. Yes, you probably can't, but that doesn't matter, does it? Neither can I! We have NOTHING to loose here, only words to gain! And more so than we would otherwise.

Plus, there is a prize for the one who is the closest to reaching, or reaches first, the goal. It is confidential. (hint hint, cough cough, it may be a few of your books actually getting finished... *whistles nonchalantly* )

And lucky us! It is leap year! A whole extra day!!!

So what are you waiting for?

Oh yeah. Instructions? Well, here you go:


For your convenience, I have written down exactly how many words per day/month/week you will need to write in order to reach this goal:

PER DAY (Saturdays and Sundays excluded)
3832 words per day

PER DAY: (Only sundays excluded)
3195 words per day

PER WEEK:
17858

PER MONTH:
83334



So, what do you say? Yes? Oh, thats good! So, here is what we'll do. If each novel is around 1oo,000 words long, we'll be able to write ten novels in ONE YEAR. So, reply with the following:

what stories you are planning to write (you don't have to do ten, but if you're like me, you have twenty unfinished stories or at least ideas lying around, and you can finally dust off their covers, and finish them)

And then, every day/week/ time you get on, track your progress against everyone else, using the following form:


Hours spent:
Mood: (one or more of the smiley faces)
Words written today:
Written on what: (which story)
Word requirement for today:
Words you should have total:
Words you need to write to catch up:
Where you are at in your story: (What chapter/page/however you want to measure it by, are you on? Have you completed a novel)
Total wordcount:
Amount of words needed to finish the whole thing:
Days left:
Comments: (about writers block, how the writing is going, a particularly funny/weird/cool idea you thought up, did one of your characters die, etc. )





Here is mine:


Books I will write:

[]Silent
[] Dragon Sisters
[] The Fables of Quernome
[] A Cage in the Sky
[] The Dwirven and the traitor
[] A collection of short stories and poems
[] Invisible creatures vol. 1
[] Invisible creatures vol. 2
[] Invisible creatures vol. 3
[] The Finder's Keeper
[] Vermillion Greene

I will write all of them one at a time, except the short stories and poems, which I will write whenever I think of one. Yes, there are more than ten on there. That is because I will not be able to do much on one of them, as I am writing it with my cousin, and she lives in Idaho. I will do a different story if it sounds better than the others, that isn't set in stone. Anywho...




You had better get ready to put the worst drafts of your best books forward!

Rules:
There is no going back
No giving up
No refusing this invitation/challenge/command
No whining
No distractions
and above all....
Have fun! :D


So... Here is the information from the Emails that people have sent:

Megan is doing:

1. Gone Missing

book 1- maybe a quarter of the way through

hopefully a book 2

2. Wishing Death Away

3. The Seaside Travels of Diana Lone's

4. Roses are Blue (random story title I will just have to work with..... but no one needs to know...)

Linnea is doing:

The Difference Between Heaven and Hell

The Heroes of Aefre (I need to keep moving on this one!)

How to Survive the Shadow Market

Labyrinth Academy

The Hiding House

A Star for Daniel

The Sky Above Dusting

The White City

The Red City

The Blue City

Quiana is doing:
[] Telfor's Wall
[] A.L.I.S.: Second Mission
[] A.L.I.S: Third Mission
[] If Humans Never Existed
[] Asylum
[] Island in a Bubble
[] Fortune

Mari is doing:
Clueless.

Or The Truth About Apartment Buildings, Hamlin Germany , Of Rats and Other things, A Match A Flute and a Book Maker.

Faith is doing:
[] Volicla
[] Flash
[] Planet Hopper
[] Unnerve
[] Cannen (Draft name, in fact they mostly all are)
[] and a whole bunch of comics :)


Connor will be doing:

-we do not know yet


Kaleigh is doing:

Not sure







I apologize for the disorginization of this post, but I am in a slight hurry :)