1-Million-Words

The final votes are in! The tie is broken! Our two last challenges in 2024 will be Songfic and Original fic.

Here is the full list in order of popularity:

1. Bingo
2. WIP Push
3. Drabble/Icon
4. Give it a Whirl
5. Crossovers
6. Songfic
7. Original fic

This is not the order they will be run over the year. At this point, our first challenge for the year is Crossovers, which starts on Monday 15 Jan and runs till 29 Feb, hosted by the wonderful skargasm! Watch out for those posts!

For the rest, I will work out a schedule and post that soon. We have some volunteers, but if you think you'd like to either run or help run a challenge and you haven't already commented to that effect in the challenge poll post here, please go read the bit about running the challenges and the dates, and add your comment to that post.

I am heading away on a road trip with my son today and won't be home till Friday, so you have a week to let me know, and I will hopefully get both the weekend challenge and the long challenge schedules done up shortly after that.

Have a great week everyone, and thanks again to those that voted!

Lets get creative out there! ;-)

YES! Something is going right for me! Last time K asked me to do this, I actually managed to get it done on time, and OMG, here I am again! There must be something in the water...

So, how are you all doing? I am sick, sick, sick of work, but otherwise healthy (we won't mention allergies). I still haven't actually written anything fictiony this year, but as luck would have it, I pulled out my graphics brain in September and made all of THREE icons! Woot, go me. HA! Compare to the wonderfulness that is severina2001 and itsanonyx, who both gave us incredible graphics numbers this month, that is positively slack, but for me, it's amazeballs!

And if you are Big Buddying, you have just kicked off into October so the percentage to aim for is around 9% of your monthly total. How are you doing? Hitting the mark or still need a kick to get you there? You still have plenty of time to catch up, anyway! Hit the previous posts for more prompts if you need 'em!

Speaking of prompts, I am far too lazy these days to find you links, so get scrolling, or find the appropriate tabs to see the Word of the Day, Numbers, A-Z, Weekend Challenge, our current long challenge Crossovers, or any other of our wonderful regular posts to find some cool and groovy prompts to inspire your Muse, if you need 'em!

Your Flash Challenge for today is: Flying high! Whether that's high on drugs because your character has been kidnapped or had their drink spiked for evil purposes and is about to take drastic measures to escape, or they're a pilot who has just avoided a crash landing, or maybe your character has just joined the mile-high club, or is just sitting down to their favourite movie, Top Gun (substitute as needed!), then come on! We want to hear that story! One hundred words or a thousand, we want to see it! Or maybe it's graphically inspiring to you in some way? Pat yourself on the back if you make it and share it with me or the wide world!

What's left? Oh, what will you do this week to make more awesomeness in your life, and coincidentally, more words for us here at 1MW? I cannot say, at this point, that I have great plans to make words, but I do have some Christmas gifts to continue crocheting, so here's hoping I can get those numbers up where I want them, and also get to make more of my Christmas cards! It's only 12 weeks till the 25th Dec, so it's time to get moving on them!

And before I forget, let's remember to thank each other for our awesomeness! THANK YOU, each and every one of our members, as without you, we'd be nothing! *hugs*

Have a great week, everyone! ;-)

Hey everyone! We're thinking about getting organised for 2020, and would like your thoughts on what content we should have here at the comm. I've put together a poll, so if you can fill it out by midnight Friday 27th Dec PST, that would help us a lot. And if you have any comments to make or questions to ask about anything at the comm, please do so here! We want your input!

( Poll under here! )

K and I would also like to thank all of you who have been involved with the comm this year; we really appreciate you hanging out with us and making this such a great place to be. We wish you all the best over the festive season too! ;-)

PS: I've emailed everyone who is a member of the comm to remind you to fill out the poll, but I missed copying the link here, and have had issues trying to send another group email, so apologies for that.

Hi everyone! Welcome to our new members - we've had a few people join since 2016 got underway, and it's so nice to have them here with us, right everyone?

Just a few things to let you know where we're at so far. Rare Pairs challenge has started! It's running for all of January, so check it out and get those rare pairs moving! ;-)

Kaige and I are still working on scheduling - thanks to everyone who has offered their help for all the regular posts and challenges this year. Thanks too, to everyone who voted in the poll! We have a fair idea now of which things are the most popular, and we'll be working out anything that hasn't already started and letting you know about that soon enough. We'll be in touch with the volunteers as we finalise dates and such. Thanks to everyone for their patience!

Please note that we will have to skip a few things this year, but don't be disheartened if it's something you really love - we still have 'flash!' challenges from time to time, so they could pop up then, or if you'd like to run a 'flash!' yourself on any of them, don't be shy to ask Kaige or myself; we're pretty happy for this to happen at various points during the year!

I wanted to tell you that we had a bunch of great icons made for the advent post on the 25th of December, and many of them (sorry there wasn't room for all of them; I had to delete a few older ones to fit them in!) have now been added to our user pics page, so feel free to nab any of them for your own use; please credit the maker - their user name is listed there.

We really need to post all the bigger graphics we have too - both old and new - so I'll try and get a post for that done soon, and link it at the top left in the comm so anyone can access that to use at any stage as well.

Another thing I'm going to do is run another friending meme - you may remember us doing this a couple of times before, but it's a new year and we have new members! It's a great time to get to know them, and to find out about people who've been with us from the beginning when you may have forgotten some of their fandoms/interests. Watch this space!

I also wanted to know who's interested in a 2015 Brag Book? thtwzjustadream posted for everyone to add some of their 'most proud of' works for 2014, so if anyone would like to put up a similar post for 2015 please comment here, and we'll get you on to that ASAP. Everyone else, start thinking about those fics and graphics that you think you did a super job on last year, and collect up your links!

Lastly for now, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who contributed words and/or graphics last year: YOU GUYS ROCK! I'm so looking forward to another great year - and with our newbies on board and everyone else going for ONE MORE WORD than last year, we'll easily surpass that 15.9 million for 2015. Let's rock 18 million for 2016!!! GO, US!!! ;-)