Community

Over the years Get Your Words Out has been in action, we’ve spread across social media. Below you can find out not only where GYWO is but what we have to offer on each site.

Dreamwidth

Livejournal

Dreamwidth/Livejournal

The Dreamwidth community is the hub of Get Your Words Out. Challenges, discussions, chatting, and check-ins all take place in this community. Monthly volunteer posts are supplemented by anything our members post about their writing interests, successes, or roadblocks.

Our big events for the year include GYWO Yahtzee; 7 Days, 7 Stories; and the Mid-Year Marathon.

The Livejournal community is an administrative mirror. Cross-posting is limited to administrative announcements and check-ins. Members are welcome to post additional content and discussions.

Tumblr

Tumblr

On Tumblr, we reblog the best articles, advice, picture and text prompts, music lists, research, and writing-related motivation. You can submit your own posts to us as well! We also post community reminders including, Did You Miss It?, a links digest for the Dreamwidth community.

Twitter

On Twitter, you’ll find retweets of the best articles, advice, and quotes on writing our volunteers run across. We also post prompts (about every three days) and community reminders, including announcements for Word Wars.

Latest Tweets

RT @elizabethscraig: Pushing Through Self-Doubt: https://t.co/QAjQ4P8NjN @StoryADayMay @WriterUnboxed #wkb31

32 mins ago
Word Wars starting now! GYWO Members, join us in the Chat Room. Word wars continue at 8pm and 9pm EST. #gywo

14 hours ago

Share With Us

Posting to the Dreamwidth and Livejournal communities is open to all members. Every month a cadre of Dreamwidth volunteers post encouragement, challenges, prompts, and discussions, but we also want to hear from you!

Contribute To The Community

Any posts related to writing and publishing are on-topic, whether it’s about your personal issues or kudos, your advice, a link to an article, or a review or recommendation about a writing tool or technique. Please appropriately credit writers and publications when quoting or linking to work. All posts must allow comments and no one but a moderator should delete or screen comments.

During the year, you may come across writing challenges, exchanges, contests or story calls. Should you want to share that information with GYWO, please include a description of the challenge or story call (such as “Harry Potter Next Gen Big Bang”), any basic requirements for participation (“minimum 5,000 words”), and important dates (“sign ups from Jan 15-Jan 31, rough draft due March 15, final draft due April 30”). We welcome announcements for any writing challenges or story calls, fandom or original.

The comm operates with moderated posting, so during check-ins it may take some time for your post to appear. If a post is not appropriate in some way, you will be notified and have the opportunity to make changes.

Share Your Work

As this is a writing challenge, you’re welcome to share what you’ve written. Works of any size or type may be posted. When you share your work, follow these guidelines to help keep the comm neat and organized.

Each post of fanfic or original work must have a header with it. The header should include:

Title: we encourage something other than “Untitled”
Fandom or Original Universe: for fanfic, or if you have been posting numerous snippets from the same original universe
Rating: please use either the MPAA ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17), or describe your rating (i.e., “All Ages”, “Mature”, etc.)
Word count: especially if you have a word count pledge!
Summary: one to three sentences should suffice
Warnings/triggers: as you see fit
Writing Prompt: (optional) if written to a challenge or prompt from the community
Beta: (optional) if you use a beta, note it here

The entire story must be behind a cut, no matter the length. Please place any extensive author’s notes behind a cut.

Links to your personal journal or writing journal are fine, but please use the above header when posting on GYWO.

Because we are not set up to be an archive, tag your fic using only the tags provided for genre. If you need a tag made for a specific genre or subgenre, let a moderator know.