Terie Garrison’s bright idea of a one-month “race” to keep us motivated in the otherwise uninspiring month of February…she and I did this last summer (August can also be One of Those Months).<\/p>\n
You can watch progress at her LiveJournal–she’s got the graphics up at the head of her journal<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0 and because we’re each reporting in our own time zones, the graphic may be a day behind.\u00a0\u00a0 ( It is, as I post this. ) \u00a0\u00a0 The up-to-the-minute wordage posts are on Terie’s newsgroup at SFF.net.\u00a0\u00a0 To read there, if you’re not a member (at least several of the contestants are), go to http:\/\/webnews.sff.net\/ and sign in as a guest.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll browse to find her newsgroup:\u00a0\u00a0 sff.people.terie-garrison.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The idea is that each writer chooses a word goal for the month–large or small, doesn’t matter.\u00a0 Those picking the longest goal have no multiplier–the words you see are the real words reported.\u00a0 Those with shorter goals have a multiplier to compensate for the “long” goal. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Terie Garrison’s bright idea of a one-month “race” to keep us motivated in the otherwise uninspiring month of February…she and I did this last summer (August can also be One of Those Months). You can watch progress at her LiveJournal–she’s got the graphics up at the head of her journal,\u00a0\u00a0 and because we’re each reporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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