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I moderated a lame one for Bucky, IAP, and Steve the other day, and I'm willing to put a modicum of effort into coming up with less terrible prompts if people want to do this. Basically, you get a prompt and then you write as much as you can about it for a brief period of time, like 15 minutes to an hour. The point of doing these exercises is to condition yourself to write quickly without letting your filter get in the way, which is useful if you're a draft-oriented writer (which you probably should be unless you outline very exhaustively). Posting it afterwards is optional because it will be terrible, but you should post your wordcount if you participate.

@Bucky @mizal @Steve24833 @TheNewIAP

Yes, ma'am.

The last one was fun and educational so sign me up, please.

The name should clearly be "Steve's Special Stupendous Speedy Shit-Spewing Script-Scribbling Storygame-Studying Special". I don't particularly want to do it, but because you were so kind to agree to the new name for it and that name includes my name, so I'm in.

Uh well that is an interesting proposal.

Proposal? I'm pretty sure you agreed to it already. Why else would I have agreed to do this?

I could try c:

And probably fail e.e

The only way to fail is to not write anything!

True. But it took me almost an hour to write 1337 words!

It's also true my muse was dead,I  was doing a topic I generally don't have a interest in, and I did stare at the screen blankly for about the first 3/4's of the time

Those are good words. In a fifteen minute panic, I wrote a story that ended with "LOLZ IF VAMPIRES ARE REALS WEREWOLFZ IS TO", so just spew shit. Hell, "spew" and "shit" is actively in the title that Axiom agreed upon.

1337 words in an hour is good. No one can compete with Steve's output, so don't even try.

Mine is around 22 words a minute. Welp.

Steve's is like...62.

Welp.

Yeah. I can't match that.

By the way, how often do people want to do these, and for how long? I was thinking every day and for half an hour.

Every day might be more than I can handle depending on how busy I am in the shop, but I'll do my best.  And half an hour sounds about right.

If it's every day 15-20 minutes would work better. If it's like 3 days a week, the 30 minutes could work.

Hmmm, 20 minutes might be fine. Maybe you get five minutes for thinking and 20 for writing. I feel like it's good to do it daily.

People would cheat and write in those five minutes. How can you expect an animal without pride to have honour?

Edit: In case you didn't know, Bucky was the animal without pride, because he lost like a little bitch.

I wouldn't be able to participate daily most likely, but I'll try to participate as much as I can,

I'll try to do this as often as I can. Prepear four misspeled wurds.

Same. My unedited work is...Look at my writing workshop post for more details xD

This is not an advertisement I promise.

I tend to miss words when I'm typing fast and sometimes have very long run on sentences that barely make sense.

Yep, it's fine! You don't have to post the results if you don't want to. The only requirement is posting your wordcount.

But if you don't, you're a pussy.

Well Bucky is already a pussy for not writing about vampires, so there's precedent.

Wait, wouldn't that make cheating easy if we just post word count?

Not that I'm saying anyone here would cheat.

*I just wrote 14,386 word in twenty minutes exactly.*

Nah, if you're going to lie, do it the right way.

Axiom! I wrote 608 million words in exactly those five minutes you gave us at the beginning...I win right?
 

I mean, you can also write for longer than the specified time period if you want to cheat, but what's the point? You don't get anything for winning. This is a self-enrichment exercise, so you're lame if you cheat.

True. I just don't like when people cheat, and some people do...even if there is no price for winning. Eh, well, I'm still excited about this :D

Sweet. I made a thread for the first one while people are interested in it.

I'm honestly very impressed with the turnout so far. I'll see if I can knock one out later.

Great job to everyone! Does anyone have any kind of specific prompts they'd like to see? Also, how much focus vs. freedom do you want in the prompts? I decided to try one with more guidance today and see how people do versus yesterday.