I'm a Winner in wwwW
KiwiWriters.org has just finished it's first site-wide challenge, the wwwW - Waitangi Weekend Word Wace.
And here is my icon to prove it :-)
The idea of wwwW is to write a short story of 7,500 words in just four days over Waitangi Weekend.
It was a lot harder than I thought it would be and I think this is for two reasons. In comparison to NaNoWriMo, because you only have four days, it's a huge amount harder to catch up if you fall behind - a trap a few of us got caught out by.
But the other reason is also because, instead of writing to 'fill out' the novel (as you have to doing NaNoWriMo), you can't pad as much - you have to keep the story rolling and every scene has to count. This means you have to think more about it. I might make the suggestion that we spread it over a little more time next year, dunno yet.
Finally, to tell you a little about what happened, I actually got to 6,002 words with the story and then killed it off. It was about fighting and blood and stuff like that, stuff I really don't like reading about let alone writing. In the end, I started a new story which was about toys, kids, sprouts, cabbage, Star Wars and Transformers. It was much easier to write and a lot funnier. I managed 1,600 words in not much over an hour. Prior to that, I was managing maybe 500 words an hour which isn't very good.
Just proves that you should write about what you like.
Update: 2007-02-09 11:30 - Kerryn has put her wwwW winner icon up too. Update: 2007-02-09 15:19 - Travis has also put his wwwW winner icon up.
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