Writing and Chat - Writing Challenge Buy-in/1st Checkpoint

Come at 10:00 for talking about all-things writing Come at 10:30 for a solid hour of writing time! Bring: whatever you write with (computer, tablet, paper etc.), interesting new hacks and facts, and your mental focus! Please be prepared to make a small purchase to support the business where we meet. For anyone participating in our November Novel Writing Challenge, this week will be when you can buy in to the winner's pool for $10. must be in person to buy in 😊 Let's share our word counts and discuss our writing routines! to reach 50,000 words in the 30 days of November, we should be creating roughly 1,666 words per day, making today's goal: 11,666 words!! Writing Challenge: This year we have decided to start our very own, novel-writing challenge for the month of November! Anyone familiar with [now retired] NaNoWriMo will recognize the format: in the month of November, each participant will attempt to write 50,000 words on either a new project or continuing a pre-existing novel project! So has graciously found a great website for us to use, to keep track of our individual progress! https://trackbear.app/ Another attendee suggested we could up the competition by collecting for a winner’s pool! Any in-person participant is eligible to contribute $10. And at the end of the month, the pool will be evenly divided among all participants to have completed the 50,000 word challenge! Winner’s Pool buy-in will take place at the November 7th meeting - still open for ideas on how to stash the funds until the end of the month! To share your stats on TrackBear, after making an account, from your username, click Settings, then toggle the Public Profile switch to “Enabled” this will allow other participants to see your project! Under Projects, click “+ New” and fill in the details for your project, under “Show on profile?” Toggle on, so all participants can see your project. If you’re continuing a project that you’ve already started, enter your current word count, if starting…