International World Creation Month

[Death_Jester]

Hello All,

The crew over at the harpingmonkey.com are gearing up for InWoCreMo.  It is much like NoNoWriMo but instead of creating a novel you are trying to get 50,000 words down about a campaign setting.  You will retain all rights to your material just like NaNoWriMo.  I thought this may be of interest to some of the people on this board.  

Have fun.
Jester

[Túrin]

As a point, 50,000 words is huge. A quick wordcount revealed that my setting has roughly half that number, and it's considered large by most members here. I think we only have three or four settings around here that could manage such a number (the only ones that spring to mind are Altvogge, which is already being published, and Tasothilos, which is currently under reconstruction).

Túrin

PS This post is mostly aimed to make a point to the other members that this is a pretty heavy request, though if an actual contest is to be held around this, it's also a critique of the organization, which seems to be asking a bit too much.

[beejazz]

Um... has Dystopia enough words?

[Raelifin]

Heh. Urbis would fit in perfectly.

[Túrin]

@ beejazz: dunno.

Apparently, the idea is that you create the entire (!) 50,000 word (!) campaign setting from scratch (!) in just one (!) month (!). That sounds pretty insane to me.

Just noting though. Feel free to judge it yourself at www.harpingmonkey.com.

Túrin

[Raelifin]

Call me stupid, but I can't find anything about InWoCreMo itself. What month are we actually talking about here? October?

[Túrin]

Yeah, it's hard to find, that's why I posted what I found. Most of it can be found here: http://www.harpingmonkey.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=129

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I coldn't find it either, except where other people on the site were asking for advice on it.

[Raelifin]

Yeah, as cool as that sounds, there's no way I'm writing more than fifteen hundred words each day straight for a month. In December no less.

[Poseptune]

Do you think I could enter if I type campaign setting 25,00 times?

[Elven Doritos]

Do you think I could enter if I type campaign setting 25,00 times?

Try it.

So commands ElDo. :P

[Death_Jester]

Reprinted from here http://harpingmonkey.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=129  Without permission by the way.  Because so many people were having issuse find it.

Enjoy.

The main idea behind International World Creation Month (IntWoCreMo) is pretty simple. You have 31 days to write 50,000 words original campaign world. For those keeping score, that's about 1,612 words per day. It's no small feat, and yes, I know many of you creative folks out there can do it.

Here are the basic guidelines:

1) Registgration will open on December 1, 2006. There will be a new section of the website, or a new website altogether, and we'll post the address here when it is ready.

2) Start writing on Jan 1, 2006.

3) Hit 50,000 words of *original* content by January 31st, 2007.

...and that's it.

Here are some of the FAQs I can answer:

Q: Is this a rip-off of NaNoWriMo?
A: We prefer to say it was inspired by NaNoWriMo. But...yes. It is.

Q: Is there a prize?
A: Tremendous personal satisfaction at a job well done.

Q: Who will read my world when its done?
A: Whomever you give it to. It's yours.

Q: Does the Harping Monkey own the right to anything submitted?
A: Hell, no. You own everything. Worlds uploaded at the end of the month for word count verification are deleted, unread, after being verified.

Q: Will you be publishing any of the work submitted?
A: We're not a publishing house. That being said, there is talk of creating a library of worlds, npcs, etc at the Harping Monkey. If we do that, it will be a seperate process.

Q: How do you win? Are there judges? What are the prizes?
A: The way to win IntWoCreMo is by writing 50,000 words by midnight on January 31. Every year, there are many, many winners. There are no "Best World" or "Quickest-Written World" awards given out. All winners will get an official "Winner" web icon and certificate.

No doubt there will be more questions and discussion. Please, visit our forums, which is where we will post the most recent information.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

What exactly is harpingmonkey anyway?  I couldn't really figure out what the purpose of the site was, just glancing around...

[SDragon]

Reprinted from here http://harpingmonkey.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=129  Without permission by the way.  Because so many people were having issuse find it.

Enjoy.

The main idea behind International World Creation Month (IntWoCreMo) is pretty simple. You have 31 days to write 50,000 words original campaign world. For those keeping score, that's about 1,612 words per day. It's no small feat, and yes, I know many of you creative folks out there can do it.

Here are the basic guidelines:

1) Registgration will open on December 1, 2006. There will be a new section of the website, or a new website altogether, and we'll post the address here when it is ready.

2) Start writing on Jan 1, 2006.

3) Hit 50,000 words of *original* content by January 31st, 2007.

...and that's it.

Here are some of the FAQs I can answer:

Q: Is this a rip-off of NaNoWriMo?
A: We prefer to say it was inspired by NaNoWriMo. But...yes. It is.

Q: Is there a prize?
A: Tremendous personal satisfaction at a job well done.

Q: Who will read my world when its done?
A: Whomever you give it to. It's yours.

Q: Does the Harping Monkey own the right to anything submitted?
A: Hell, no. You own everything. Worlds uploaded at the end of the month for word count verification are deleted, unread, after being verified.

Q: Will you be publishing any of the work submitted?
A: We're not a publishing house. That being said, there is talk of creating a library of worlds, npcs, etc at the Harping Monkey. If we do that, it will be a seperate process.

Q: How do you win? Are there judges? What are the prizes?
A: The way to win IntWoCreMo is by writing 50,000 words by midnight on January 31. Every year, there are many, many winners. There are no "Best World" or "Quickest-Written World" awards given out. All winners will get an official "Winner" web icon and certificate.

No doubt there will be more questions and discussion. Please, visit our forums, which is where we will post the most recent information.

wait, what? am i reading that right?

[Epic Meepo]

Um... I don't get it. How is creating a 50k setting at HarpingMonkey different from creating a 50k setting at the CBG? (Well, different color scheme, I suppose...)

But then again, I see a new member "Ishmayl" over at HarpingMonkey, so maybe the real story here is the secret, unofficial collaboration/cross-spammination of two similar message boards. In that case, I'm behind it all the way. 200-or-so-member message boards unite!