Announcing the 5th annual Web Series/Serial Writing Month - August 2011
WeSeWriMo, aka Web Series (or Web Serial) Writing Month, is a writing marathon/project much like NaNoWriMo, but with far more flexible and personalized goals. The project is hosted by the EpiGuide web fiction community, where our mandate is to encourage and promote the bountiful variety of webserial formats and genres.
Since 2007, writers of any kind of serialized fiction or webseries are invited to spend August 1 - 31 churning out material with a set goal of ... well, whatever measurement you like! You might decide on 50,000 words or 10 installments or 50 scenes or 100 pages or any writing goal you wish. The idea is to make it ambitious enough to be a challenge, but realistic enough so that you're not dooming yourself to failure before you even start.
Starting July 1, would-be participants can sign up over at the official registration thread at http://bit.ly/wese2011 and declare their goal. (Goals can be changed at any time up till the start of WeSeWriMo, but after that, you're stuck with it!) The goals and links to your website are published over on WeSeWriMo.org; those who successfully complete their goals will have their sites linked throughout the year. Not to mention the thrill of victory.
Participation is free, of course! You'll receive an EpiGuide blog (usually a feature offered only to members with 25+ posts) and some very basic gadgets where you can chart your progress in public. Folks can discuss their challenges/obstacles, tips, and successes, in the official WeSeWriMo forum at the Eppy. And one can post/tweet about it anywhere else one fancies, of course.
Two years ago I offered daily posts with ideas and links to inspire any flagging, weary writers to keep their eyes on the prize, and everyone chimed in with their own thoughts. Sometimes we offered fun/silly ways to challenge ourselves (such as including the name of their serial hidden within dialogue, or writing acronyms throughout several paragraphs, that sort of thing). Last year was our biggest group of participants yet, with 75 writers taking on the challenge.
I hope even more weblit people will join us in 2011.
If you have any suggestions or questions, please let me know. And for those of you with blogs, Twitter, or any other method of spreading the word, I'd be incredibly grateful if you'd chat up the project to let others know about it.
Thanks, gang! I hope you'll join us.
Errr... I thought wesewrimo was every August?
EDIT - Aha, I just read Kira's post more clearly. Sorry guys 
MeiLin had confused me with her tweet, I thought she was saying it had moved to July. Ignore me!
Confused/confusing MeiLin is confused/confusing. :)_
Ooh sorry for not responding, guys. I turned off notifications after that spammer flooded Weblit's forums with repetitive junk.
Becka, I replied over on Twitter with your username. Like you I'm a bit worried about CampNaNoWriMo... Like they don't already get the bulk of the publicity, sigh; plus, they have tools aplenty and all we have are low tech forums. Also I haven't the personal finances to support a Google ad run the way I did last year, and I suspect participation may be lower as a result. 
Anyway, enough doom and gloom! I hope some of you will join us, because no matter how many people there are, those of us participating will reap the rewards of meeting our own unique challenges! Or at least trying like hell to do so. 
Spam: I think I've got that under control now. 
It's going to be interesting to see how CampNaNoWriMo effects this. I'm going to be doing that next month, but since my intent is to write Arc 2 of The Dragon Wars Saga I fancy the two will harmonise well. (And NaNoWriMo's tracking tools and automatic validators are very nice).
In other news I cannot remember any of my epiguide login details - including the email I used to sign up. *falls over*
Becka