Click here to play Word Wars
Often played in the chat room, a Word War is a game you play where the person with the highest word count at the end wins. You can play it as a motivator to write your story, or you can play it just for fun.
Several years ago, I began working on a way to play Word War games here on YWS so that you not only can see each person's word count as you type, but also so that other people can watch. I wasn't able to pull it off back then, but in the past couple weeks, I began working on it anew. It is now finished!
To start a Word War, click on "Word Wars" in the Resources submenu in the footer section of the site. From there, you'll be able to browse any current Word Wars, old ones you participated in, and (of course) start one.
After a word war is finished, you'll be able to see what you and everyone else typed. This way, you can copy what you wrote into your story.
A point of forewarning though: this is a beta product, so it's likely there will be some bugs. If you come across one, please report it! At this point, it's likely you'll come across one bug where the timers for some browsers are slightly different. What this means is that you may see someone's word count start increasing when you are still unable to type. However, everyone has the same total amount of time to type. So if someone starts early, they'll also finish earlier by the same amount.
Have fun with it!
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