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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-24 02:17 pm
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May sign up

It's time to sign up for the May WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of May.


    Level of challenge: 1 chapter, 1000 words, 1 fic finished, whatever you like
    Fandom(s) involved: if you know at this point
    What you're looking for from the challenge: this could be as vague or specific as you like: someone to be accountable to, someone to remind you to write, someone to bounce ideas off, etc.
    What you could offer other participants yourself: ditto!
    How people should contact you: DW message, e-mail, IM etc.
    Time zone: useful for seeing who might be up for a writing session at a time convenient to you


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The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.
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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-24 02:15 pm

Volunteers for May

At the moment I'm unavailable during week 1 and week 2 due to travel and booked events.

Week 1: 3rd to 9th
Week 2: 10th to 16th
Week 3: 17th to 23rd
Week 4: 24th to 30th
Week 5: 31st to 6th
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-23 12:34 pm
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Day 23 check in!

How's the work progressing??

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What are you working on today?

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Writing
2 (40.0%)

Editing
1 (20.0%)

Researching
0 (0.0%)

Something else
1 (20.0%)

Nothing today
1 (20.0%)



A busy day here: no focus pre-appointments, probably no energy after! A lot of wistful wip thoughts, though :D
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-22 12:57 pm
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Day 22 check in!

we have reached mid-week!

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What are you working on today?

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Writing
4 (66.7%)

Editing
2 (33.3%)

Researching
1 (16.7%)

Something else
0 (0.0%)

Nothing today
0 (0.0%)

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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-04-22 09:19 am

Search maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-21 08:00 pm
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Day 21 check in!

Hello, how's it going today?

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Have you had a chance to write today?

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Yes!
2 (50.0%)

No!
0 (0.0%)

Not yet!
0 (0.0%)

Not happening..
2 (50.0%)



Racing to finish my library book before it's due so I haven't started yet :P
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-20 01:55 pm
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Day 20 check in!

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How are your projects going today?

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Pretty good
1 (20.0%)

Great!
0 (0.0%)

Haven't started yet
0 (0.0%)

Not happening
4 (80.0%)



Do you have a word count goal in your head when you sit down to write?
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omens ([personal profile] omens) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-19 01:07 pm
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Day 19 check in!

Hello & welcome to week 3 of April!

Poll #34497 Writing!
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Have you written today?

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Yes!
2 (40.0%)

No!
0 (0.0%)

Not yet!
3 (60.0%)



How was your weekend for writing? Do you have goals for the week?

It's been a while since I've hosted, I hope I don't mess anything up :D
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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-17 08:53 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 17 -- Friday

Hello on Friday!  Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

   - I thought about my fic once or twice
   - I wrote
   - I did some planning and/or research
   - I edited
   - I've sent my fic off to my beta
   - I posted today!
   - I'm taking a break
   - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

   - I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
   - I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
   - I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
   - I'm going to take a break from writing
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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-16 11:52 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 16 -- Thursday

Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-15 08:48 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 15 -- Wednesday

Hello on Wednesday!  Sorry for missing yesterday -- anyway, how are things going in the world of fic?

Did you write?

   - Yes!
   - No!
   - Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in?  How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits?  What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?
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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-13 08:34 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 13 -- Monday

Hello on Monday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
linaewen: Girl Writing (Girl Writing)
Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-12 09:02 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 12 -- Sunday

Hello on Sunday!  What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or outlining
       - I did research and/or canon review
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Sunday Discussion:  It's a new writing week, and that means a fresh start. Maybe you had a great writing week last week, or maybe last week wasn't the greatest for getting writing things done -- what kind of goals do you have for keeping up your momentum or starting off fresh this week? 


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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-04-11 11:58 pm

The case of the missing notifications

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-04-10 04:22 pm
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check in day 10

How is the writing going today?

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Today I

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wrote
4 (66.7%)

edited
2 (33.3%)

posted
1 (16.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a break
1 (16.7%)

dealt with life
2 (33.3%)



Discussion: what are you working on this weekend?

Can anyone take weeks 2 and 3? I'm not going to have much availability for the rest of the month.