Announcement: SimStoCreMo 2013
Lovely Sims story writers, I am happy to announce that it's almost time to sign up for Sim Story Creating Month 2013!
First of all: this is our third year running! We the Simspiration mods are happy to be hosting this again and we hope it'll go as well for everyone who participates as it has for the past two years.
The event itself begins on March 1st (at 12:00am in your timezone) and ends on March 31st (at 11:59pm in your timezone), as it did last year. However, sign-ups will begin in a couple of days. More on that further down.
Here are the few simple ground rules we came up with:
1. State your goal ahead of time. You must have a goal going into the month. Include what it is when you sign up, see below for details. You may edit your goal up until the event begins, but after March 1st you may not change it.
2. There is no minimum goal, but please choose yours judiciously. We have never instituted a minimum goal and that seems to have worked out in previous years. However, we do recommend a goal of at least 50 captioned slides or an appropriate equivalent, meaning that you would shoot fifty slides and write them up during the month. You may choose to focus solely on shooting or writing, and that's fine too. We just want to encourage you all to challenge yourselves a bit instead of taking the easy route.
3. Work done prior to March 1st does not count toward the month's goal. You may not start your project before March 1st. You may do prep work necessary to get to your starting point, but that prep does not count toward accomplishing your goal.
4. Goals must be achieved before April 1st to count for a win. I'm sure this is more than possible for all of us, and even if you don't make it, you'll still have more than you started with at the beginning of the month, which is why we're hosting this! So just dive in and do your best. :D
Any questions? Go ahead and leave a comment. :) DO NOT sign up in this post, though, there will be a separate one for that with instructions on how to do so.
Sign-ups begin this Friday, February 15th, and run through Thursday, February 28th. So spread the word!
We're really looking forward to creating stories with you all once again!
~Marina, Rose, Cait, and De
First of all: this is our third year running! We the Simspiration mods are happy to be hosting this again and we hope it'll go as well for everyone who participates as it has for the past two years.
The event itself begins on March 1st (at 12:00am in your timezone) and ends on March 31st (at 11:59pm in your timezone), as it did last year. However, sign-ups will begin in a couple of days. More on that further down.
Here are the few simple ground rules we came up with:
1. State your goal ahead of time. You must have a goal going into the month. Include what it is when you sign up, see below for details. You may edit your goal up until the event begins, but after March 1st you may not change it.
2. There is no minimum goal, but please choose yours judiciously. We have never instituted a minimum goal and that seems to have worked out in previous years. However, we do recommend a goal of at least 50 captioned slides or an appropriate equivalent, meaning that you would shoot fifty slides and write them up during the month. You may choose to focus solely on shooting or writing, and that's fine too. We just want to encourage you all to challenge yourselves a bit instead of taking the easy route.
3. Work done prior to March 1st does not count toward the month's goal. You may not start your project before March 1st. You may do prep work necessary to get to your starting point, but that prep does not count toward accomplishing your goal.
4. Goals must be achieved before April 1st to count for a win. I'm sure this is more than possible for all of us, and even if you don't make it, you'll still have more than you started with at the beginning of the month, which is why we're hosting this! So just dive in and do your best. :D
Any questions? Go ahead and leave a comment. :) DO NOT sign up in this post, though, there will be a separate one for that with instructions on how to do so.
Sign-ups begin this Friday, February 15th, and run through Thursday, February 28th. So spread the word!
We're really looking forward to creating stories with you all once again!
~Marina, Rose, Cait, and De