Happy week eight! This is a bit belated and I apologize for no write in last week, I personally have been under the weather, but you all persevered anyway. Smooth sailings onto the end of month two!
"wist how dare you play with my heartstrings like that" ~ winter "wist is in every rp" ~ley “ah yes, fear Wist's smile :slight_smile: <- speaks of layers and layers of secrets” ~mint
Two months done! A huge congratulations to every team who has made it this far! As we head into Week Nine and Month Three, I wanted to update you all on your writing totals! As always, these are estimates and there might be small errors.
Death From the Depths Spoiler
26983 Words
The Fools' Quest Spoiler
27978 Words
The Lifecycle of a Heist Spoiler
28905 Words
The Last Word Spoiler
26510 Words
Clockwork Spies Spoiler
22870 Words
Starless Night Spoiler
24388 Words
All in all, that is over 157,000 words! That's three NaNo Novels! I think that deserves a huge congratulations to all of you.
As we get closer to the ten week mark, where the first LSS ended, I figured it would be right to tell you all that there will not be a Tsunami-type event at the ten week mark. I'll explain my decision below:
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By the time LSS Round I was approaching ten weeks, there were a total of three teams that were competing week by week, for at least a month at that point. Major winter holidays were right around the corner, which would cut off many people's time to write so the competition would end either way. Tsunami was a decision to give the three teams a way to end in an all out competition before the holidays to give each team a fair, fighting chance. They had all made it much further than any other team, so either way they would win. However, this time around the amount of teams that have made it to this point has doubled. So, six teams are still in the competition.
Also, each of the three roleplays that participated in LSS Tsunami did continue to write past the competition. It was clear that the stories weren't finished, and their writers were still itching to write. At this point, many of our stories have just started. Ending it at ten weeks when there's still so many stories just begging to be written would be an injustice to those stories and their writers.
I understand that perhaps some of us were under the impression of a Tsunami at ten weeks, and it may be disappointing or discouraging to those still writing if they were expecting an end in sight, and I truly empathize! However, this round of competition is still going strong, and LSS is an endurance competition at heart, not a sprint.
That being said, I do have a set end date in mind. For right now, I do not plan on announcing it publicly, but if the competition continues to coming near that point, I will announce it.
With that being said, I do want to continue the weekly Write ins! So, from now on, we will have an LSS Write in every Thursday. I'll share the time when it gets closer to that day.
Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there.” I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. — John Green, Looking for Alaska
