In which I am pulled into a ficathon

[primsong]

I did it. I just signed up for "A Ficathon Walks Into a Bar" - intoabar - in which fictitious characters are assigned to run into each other in a bar. Second Doctor. 500 words... hm... okay, I think I can do that... no one point and laugh later on when I'm going 'why did I sign up for that?', hah. I appreciate a ficathon in which Gen is perfectly okay, so many of them seem to expect a certain amount of what to me is 'squick' that I only rarely find one to sign onto.

Also looking forward to fic_rush next week at the Other Place, in which writers get together to write as much as they can on whatever it is they are currently working on for 48 hours with hourly opportunities to give updates or carry on about it. I'd like to see something like it over here at DW eventually.

Now to NOT sign up for any more fic challenges until these are done!

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[kerravonsen]

I appreciate a ficathon in which Gen is perfectly okay, so many of them seem to expect a certain amount of what to me is 'squick' that I only rarely find one to sign onto.
If I wasn't trying to cut down on ficathons, I would have signed up for xover_exchange (which I only heard of this year); I was very impressed with the sign-up format - not only does it try to be extremely flexible with offering lots of options for prompts, but in the "character/character" section of it, it explicitly states that one isn't allowed to disallow gen for that kind of prompt. Hooray!

I'd like to see something like it over here at DW eventually.
You could always run it yourself.

My favourite "write in a group" comms are picowrimo and writingbuds.

With picowrimo, it runs at the same time as NaNoWriMo (the month of November), but rather than having a huge enormous goal, one sets one's own goal, even if it's as small as one 500-word fic. There are daily posts where one comments with one's progress, and people make encouraging comments back.

With writingbuds, it's a freeform free-for-all; one simply makes a post in the group that one is going to be writing X, say, for an hour, or an afternoon, or "all night until I finish this thing", and people who are up and around and feel like writing too will comment saying that they'll join you and that they're working on Y, and periodically one might comment with updates, and then when one feels like stopping, one gives a last comment with how much you'd written. It's cosy and friendly, I like it. And simply declaring in public that one is going to be writing for an hour helps one stick to actually doing that, instead of putting it off.

[primsong]

Writing buds sounds a lot like the atmosphere I enjoyed so much at fic_rush, I'll have to give them a look-see. Thank you for the pointer!

[curuchamion]

PicoWrimo has a very fic_rush-ish atmosphere too. I joined a while back and am waiting eagerly for November (though not quite as impatiently as when the 'Rush was to all appearances dead).