I LIVE. Or I at least live to post about getyourwordsout once a year.


[img: notebook on wooden desktop with "GYWO 2022"
printed in large white letters with a black shadow. under that,
"writing decathlon" in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.]
GetYourWordsOut: Year Fourteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

If you don't know, or need a reminder, GYWO is a community dedicated to helping you build a writing life. GYWO encourages 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 writing sprints, and through being a forum where writers can discuss problems and roadblocks or celebrate a success.

Writers choose between eight Word Count Pledges and four Habit Pledges.

• The Word Count Pledges track your word counts and range from tracking 75K words to 1M 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. I wouldn't be the writer or person I am today if I hadn't been organizing this community for the last thirteen years.

Pledging is open through January 17. Look over the membership requirements and then follow the link and complete the GYWO 2022 Pledge Form. 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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