Last year, lrig_rorrim and I introduced the Wednesday's Works in Progress item to AWOS. Unfortunately, it received very little play here, and eventually we--more correctly I, since I had taken responsibility for it,--stopped posting it. Now, I've decided to ask all of you what to do with this space?

Poll Wednesday PollI recently had great success with a poll in my own ( Read more... )

Greetings. Even after the NaNo exodus in November ended, people haven't been rushing back to AWOS to write for some reason. My current inclination is to stop posting any new challenges until December has ended, and then resume the writing challenges bright and fresh on Sunday January 6, 2013. lrig_rorrim has put together a special December Challenge, and I ( Read more... )

What a change a couple of weeks can make. The last time we were here, there was only one category on the ballot, all of the others having received only one response. This week, the ballot has five different categories, and most of them have at least three submissions. Sure, it means that you all will have a plethora of things to read before you ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! So, I have decided (yet again) to sign up for the madness that is National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words in 30 days? No problem!

And then I had this brilliant idea! "I help to moderate a writing community", I said to myself, as I am wont to do when nobody else is around to notice I'm talking to myself. "I should post some sort of ( Read more... )

This was a quiet couple of weeks for writing submissions here in AWOS. I hope that just means that everyone was busy with real life issues, and not that your muses have abandoned you.

In our Random Writing Challenge for October 15, one person, lrig_rorrim, responded with an entry entitled The Bone CityIn our Main Writing Challenge for October 14, the ( Read more... )

Welcome to October's first AWOS ballot ( Read more... )

Both lrig_rorrim and masteroth met the Tie Breaker Challenge, and posted entries in response to the topic their opponent provided. I think that's quite an achievement, given the time crunch, and an unfamiliar topic they could only guess at before hand. So, my congratulations to you both for a job well done.

Just as a reminder, lrig_rorrim wrote an entry on Something goes ( Read more... )

What happens when, on their last day in Las Vegas, muchtooarrogant's wife decides to buy geegaws/souvenirs after brunch? Why, elementary my dear Watson, MTA asks for a chair, and once one in the mall is located, takes out his laptop and posts the AWOS poll. LOL ( Read more... )

Not really, although it's the perfect weather for it here today. It's mostly cloudy out, and the temperature right now is only 77 degrees Fahrenheit, 25 for you Celsius fans. I live in Texas, and I gotta tell ya, this is a pretty welcome relief from those weeks and weeks of 100+ high temperatures every single day. So, I'm not sitting in the park ( Read more... )

What a difference two weeks can make. The last time we were here, there was only one writing challenge on the ballot, and only three entries to choose from. Now, there are three different challenges on the ballot, and all of those challenges have four entries.

Obviously, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to lrig_rorrim, who not only agreed to manage our new ( Read more... )