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

Dreamwidth

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.

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

Word Wars today at 10am and 11am EST. Join us in the GYWO Chat Room to participate. #gywo

9 mins ago
Ways to Develop Plot Ideas - justawritingaid: Play the “what if?” game. Think of cause-and-effect situations branch… https://t.co/qBH2obN4YF

13 hours ago

Share With Us

Posting to the Dreamwidth community is open to all members. Every month a cadre of 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, any basic requirements for participation, and important dates. We welcome announcements for any writing challenges or story calls, be they fandom, original, or located off-site.

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 MPAA ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17), AO3 ratings (General Audiences, Teen, etc.) 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
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

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, writing journal, AO3 or another archive or website 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.