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Word War Winnerage



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Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:51 pm
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Tenyo says...



Wordwar Winners!


What is a wordwar?

A wordwar is when a group of people have a set amount of time to write as much as possible.

The winner is the person with the highest wordcount, but there is also special cheers for anyone who beats their personal best.

The aim of a wordwar is to get stuff done, and also to learn to silence the inner critic and to write instinctively without thinking.


How does it work?

First of all we decide on a time to go, for example :30 - :45. That means fifteen minutes starting from half past whatever hour it is in your timezone.

Then you write like crazy. You can work on a novel, story, poem, essay, freewrite, as long as it's half coherent.

When it's over you post up your wordcount, and your last or favourite line of the piece you were working on.

Then we all cheer for eachother and remark on how intricate or poetic eachothers lines were.

Average starting wordcount for first time warers is between 10-15 wpm. Prolific wordwarers occassionally hit 100wpm.


Where do we play?

Usually in chat. Just stumble in and shout 'Wordwar!' and then see how many people spring to life.

Credit to Lumi for the hall of fame idea.
Last edited by Tenyo on Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:02 pm
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Tenyo says...



Winner!

Title goes to Skorpionne for 640 words in a 20minute War.

And an honerable mention to Beckiw scraping behind in second place with 608.
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Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:36 pm
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noninjaes says...



I claim victor at 695 words and quite a lot of typos for a 20 min war.
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Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:54 pm
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Tenyo says...



Winner!

A double win to Ritehunter for 540 words in fifteen minutes for the first round, and 487 for twenty minutes in the second.
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Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:46 pm
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nomynomy says...



I got 719 words in 15 minutes.
  





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amit28it says...



Good for your vocabulary and language both.
  





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Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:59 pm
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Demeter says...



I used to think word war meant you could write *anything*. So my first word war outcome looked something like this:

apple taxi water flower yellow rainbow table curtain glass shoe chestnut diary squirrel splinter blanket fan


except it went on and on...
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Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:45 am
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Caesar says...



I claim winnerage for 702 words in 15-20 mins.
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Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:46 pm
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Skorpionne says...



Demeter wrote:I used to think word war meant you could write *anything*. So my first word war outcome looked something like this:

apple taxi water flower yellow rainbow table curtain glass shoe chestnut diary squirrel splinter blanket fan


except it went on and on...


Mine was more like this:

a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a...


Anyways, I won by 434 in a 15 minute word war. And Blues came second with 2.
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Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:27 pm
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ScarlettFire says...



15 minute word war results from just now (as of this post);

Tsukarin: 486.
ScarlettFire: 447.
SkyLore: 373.
Tenyo: 355.

Woo, go Tsu!


Edit: 15 minute Word War. Results as of this edit;

StellaThomas: 649.
JabberHut: 543
Tenyo: 353
ScarlettFire: 219.

Go Stells~
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Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:38 pm
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ScarlettFire says...



Win for Nie in the latest word war. <3 As of this post.

Niebla: 662.
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Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:37 pm
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ScarlettFire says...



Results of the latest word war, as of this post;

Niebla: 564.
ScarlettFire: 394.
Redvine: 390.
wonderland: 338.

Go Nie! <3
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Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:47 am
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TheMarauderBandit says...



I claim winning. As a boss.

Fifteen-minute war.
723 words.
I win.
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Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:54 pm
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Tenyo says...



This one was so close!

September 15th: 23:30 - 23:50 gmt

Ten: 648
Maru: 644
Moriah Leila: 620 < Impressive first timer.
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LadySpark says...



Demeter wrote:I used to think word war meant you could write *anything*. So my first word war outcome looked something like this:

apple taxi water flower yellow rainbow table curtain glass shoe chestnut diary squirrel splinter blanket fan


except it went on and on...
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