It's time for my annual post about getyourwordsout. And this year it's a very special post because we're starting our TENTH year and we're going 10 for 10, which means this year we have 10 pledge levels, three of which don't involve counting words.


[img: notebook and pen on wooden desktop with "GYWO 2018"
printed in large white letters with a black shadow. under that,
"writing decathlon" in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Ten!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

If you don't know, or need a reminder, GYWO is a community dedicated to helping you build a writing life. The idea was to encourage writers to prioritize their writing year round (instead of just for NaNoWriMo or some other deadline). GYWO includes support for writers though challenges, prompts, and word wars, and through being a forum where writers can discuss problems and roadblocks or celebrate a success.

This year there are seven Word Count Pledges and three Habit Pledges.

• The Word Count Pledges track your word counts and range from tracking 75K words to 500K words.
• The Habit Pledges track the number of days you work on writing activities and range from tracking 120 days to 350 days.

You can read more about both pledge types at the Pledges & Requirements post or on the website.

If you want to strengthen your dedication to writing, you should sign up. Whether or not you meet your pledge goal is irrelevant as long as you are writing. GYWO kept me writing during life trauma and depression, when it would have been easy to give up or forget about writing entirely. I cannot emphasize enough how much GYWO has impacted and changed my writing life. (And it's not just me, over the years so many writers have told me how GYWO helped them change their writing lives.)

Sign-ups are open through January 15. Look over the membership requirements and then follow the directions to leave your pledge and request membership. If you have any general questions, you can ask them at the linked post, but I'm also happy to discuss personal concerns here.

Please let your writer friends know about the community!

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