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Official 2009 Questions Post

Oct 02, 2009 19:23

Got questions? This is the place to ask them!

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golden_bastet October 8 2009, 16:52:00 UTC

Just hoping for a little flexibility around US Thanksgiving - I'm making dinner for a couple and their (yet-to-be) newborn, 200 miles away.

girlguidejones October 9 2009, 05:09:04 UTC

Not 100% sure what you mean, but Thxgiv is counted like any other day. If you want credit for posting every day of the challenge, you will need to post on Thxgiv day at some point. Of course you can still make you overall word count by posting extra on some other day.

roguemouse October 10 2009, 03:37:42 UTC

What about different time zones? Will that collide with posting our daily word count?

girlguidejones October 10 2009, 07:02:05 UTC

As the post says, we're both American, and will be running on american time, specifically, Eastern. We know that makes things challenging in other ways for some ppl, but we unfortunately don't have the time and resources to do math for 100 or so users daily to see whether or not they made the deadline according to their own individual time zones.

roguemouse October 10 2009, 11:51:12 UTC

So, basically as soon as I get an e-mail notification that the "daily word count" post is up, I have 24 hours to comment on it with my word count, yes?
Sorry I'm being so anal about this, but it's my first time and I wanna be sure I get everything :)

miniwrimo October 12 2009, 20:10:15 UTC

We try to be as flexible about it as possible. Generally, you have until we put up the next day's post to get credit for the previous day.

vane_nt October 12 2009, 21:08:18 UTC

Am I supposed to write my stories in English only? Or does the word count apply to pieces written in other languages as well?

miniwrimo October 13 2009, 06:16:05 UTC

It's all carried out on the honor system, so you can write in any language you like.

What counts towards word count? shanachie_quill October 19 2009, 10:32:59 UTC

Since I've never done this before...

I sometimes edit the stories a friend writes for a series we write together. Would anything I add to her stories count towards my daily word count?

For example I edited one of her stories over the weekend and added 1000 words to the final word count of the story...I understand if those stories don't count, I'm just trying to gauge if I need to finish those or when I need to work on them for next month.

Thanks! Looking forward to working on this :-)

Re: What counts towards word count? miniwrimo October 20 2009, 04:11:28 UTC

Whatever YOU write counts toward your word count. So co-written stories, as long as you keep your word count separate from your partner's, would count.

Re: What counts towards word count? girlguidejones October 20 2009, 04:15:11 UTC

Again, we're on the honor system. If you're actually creating the original words, and not merely beta/spell-check/grammar-correcting someone else's, then it would be appropriate to count these.

(I should say I'm one of the mods, who's just too lazy to log in under the comm name. :) )

Re: What counts towards word count? shanachie_quill October 20 2009, 13:11:50 UTC

LOL I completely understand being too lazy. I get yelled at all the time for being too lazy to log in under my other journal and post stuff.

Um...still trying to figure it out...I would say probably not. I do edit, beta, change spelling/grammar, but I also expand on ideas/descriptions when I edit her stories in the series. See we decided that rather than sending the stories back and forth and writing each part together, we would each write each write our own sections and then I would correct hers (and she mine) before posting.

Does that make sense? So um...I guess my answer is...maybe?

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entropy_house October 19 2009, 13:57:57 UTC

I'm wondering if LJ is unavailable to me for a day (it's been really wonky for me the last month) could I catch up the next day (I mean that I'd have written on the previous day, but just not able to comment due to LJ being feeblet.)?

miniwrimo October 20 2009, 04:13:42 UTC

You have from the time that day's post goes up until the next day's post goes up to get your word count in for a specific day. Once the new day's post goes up, however, you can ADD yesterday's word count to the present day and you will get the full word count, but it will only be counted as one day's writing, not two. Make sense?

entropy_house October 20 2009, 04:30:38 UTC

Ok! If I can't post it on time, I miss a day, but can still count the words towards the eventual total.

*here's hoping LJ holds out* :^)